For what feels like months, I have been waiting for Scott Adams to publish the results of the survey he funded. Essentially, economists were polled as to whether Obama or McCain would be a better president from an economic point of view.
And now, finally, here are the results!
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/dilbert_survey_of_economists/
Now, there are problems with this data. Selection bias on behalf of the surveyors and political bias on behalf of the economists but, as Adams points out, this data is potentially more useful than polling random people about economic policy.
Will this info change your vote? Will it change anyone’s vote?
This survey gets a big “so what” from me. And yes, I would say the same thing if every one of them answered straight McCain.
It would be nice if they published the exact form the economists filled out. The question that seems to ask “which is the best candidate for raising taxes on the rich” gets a big :dubious:. Also, lots of the issues are only loosely related to “the economy” (which is a term that doesn’t really have a lot of meaning in the first place).
To me it’s like asking a bunch of Formula 1 pit crews which car to buy to drive to the grocery store on Saturdays. They know a whole lot about what makes cars tick, but that experience isn’t especially helpful to my situation.
That’s curious… why are so many more economists Democrats than Republicans? Has it been this way for long?
Probably an uptick over the past 7 years or so…
I’ve got no problem with politics in MPSIMS, but since this survey is being discussed in this thread, I’m going to lock this one.