tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post5986942562581920320..comments2024-02-02T05:45:33.724-06:00Comments on Incoming: John Phippshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03245790061133614986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post-22158010747235103102009-01-01T18:03:00.000-06:002009-01-01T18:03:00.000-06:00Hmm..Bill:Do I detect certain biases built in to y...Hmm..Bill:<BR/><BR/>Do I detect certain biases built in to your reading? I had the same response, especially about the Russian-Americans.<BR/><BR/>I'm not prepared to completely dismiss his findings. He seemed to control for the many of the influences you mention.<BR/><BR/>I think the reason this caught my eye was this same reaction. We really want the answer to tell us we're not the problem.John Phippshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245790061133614986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post-70169639854344106512009-01-01T17:23:00.000-06:002009-01-01T17:23:00.000-06:00I skimmed the study without without resolving my s...I skimmed the study without without resolving my skepticism. Russian-Americans are more trusting than German-Americans?? More specifically, David Hackett Fischer wrote a book called "Albion's Seed", outlining the differences among the British who were early settlers of the U.S., and arguing those differences persisted. Certainly his Scotch-Irish group (half my ancestry) were not then very trusting. Think of the Hatfields and McCoys. Yet the Quakers were also British and very trusting. So I think his results are statistical artifacts of the data he has available, without representing anything particularly real.Bill Harshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02094598931693185805noreply@blogger.com