[extropy-chat] POLITICS: 537 Economists Criticize Bush and Kerry

[Chris Hibbert]

Eli wrote:

 > By far the greatest determinant of your choice of political
 > party is the party your parents belonged to.  95% correlation.
 > That's human nature for ya.

That seems plausible for people who hew to one of the major parties, but 
it seems doubtful for anyone else.  (Hmm.  maybe I only mean 
libertarians, now that I try to think about Greens, Socialist, Birchers, 
etc.)  Has anyone tried to figure out whether there is a good predictor 
for who will turn out to be a libertarian?  I'd bet that most lib's 
parents weren't libertarians.

(And BTW, do you have actual statistics you can reference on that 95% 
correlation, or is it a figure reconstructed from what you know about 
human nature?)

Chris
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