Sunday, October 12, 2003

Lott Sacked Again

The Moonie Times has picked of Johnmary Lottrosh's National Review buffoonish piece on media coverage of quarterbacks by race. The Moonies even corrected the typo I pointed out.

Interestingly, another professor has done a more comprehensive study on the issue and found no bias based on a QB's race. As described, Professor Niven's study sounds much more reliable, as it involves a whole season's worth of coverage (rather than four weeks) and none of the idiotic cherry-picking of Lott's study, which only looked at articles containing one of 23 "positive" and/or one of 23 "negative" adjectives to describe the QB. It doesn't appear that Niven performed his study in response to Lott's, but it sure looks like he sacked Lott anyway. Perhaps Lott can waste a few thousand more hours having his flunkies demonstrate that his approach was superior to Professor Niven's.

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