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Econometrics of Bigfoot and UFOs
Peter Leeson is posting over at Freakonomics on the econometrics of bigfoot and ufos, he finds that states with a lot of ufo sightings also have a lot of bigfoot sightings. Unfortunately, Leeson draws entirely wrong conclusions from his research. If he wants to explain his results, my young colleague needs to study the classics.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on September 1, 2008 at 07:22 PM in Television | Permalink
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No need to study classics. How about studying where military aviation bases are? UFO sightings correlate with heavy air traffic. Heavy air traffic correlates with military aviation training bases (like Pensacola/Gulf Breeze, FL). Military training bases correlates with heavily rural areas.
Unless people are seeing Bigfoot in downtown Chicago, I think we've cracked the case.
Posted by: Brian at Sep 1, 2008 7:50:44 PM
And, hey, I remember that episode. It was not crappy! (When I was 7.)
Posted by: Brian at Sep 1, 2008 7:52:56 PM
This is silliness, he just waves away a major and valid criticism as if it's nothing. Why doesn't he run a correlation against the percent of the population that lives in rural areas? How is someone supposed to see either of these things in a big city? I can just see the thought bubble now, "There's the John Hancock building, and there's Second Ave, so I need start heading this... Holy crap it's Bigfoot!"
Posted by: Team JNonohn L at Sep 1, 2008 9:36:25 PM
What...the...hell?
Posted by: Robert Olson at Sep 2, 2008 12:06:20 AM
The second comment was better than the whole post. Why do UFOs correlate with Bigfoot sightings?
"It strongly suggests to me that the aliens are Wookies."
Posted by: Noumenon at Sep 2, 2008 1:58:50 AM
Well, if we believe UFO lands on the earth randomly with equal probability, why there are much less such kind of bigfoots or UFO from China----a country with similar area as USA?
I believe most of those stuffs are artificial, although I don't preclude the possibility of existence of aliens on some other planets.
Posted by: ychao at Sep 2, 2008 4:42:19 AM
Any chance that reported sightings correlate with excessive inbreeding?
Posted by: dearieme at Sep 2, 2008 7:02:32 AM
The YouTube link would have been better as "By the way, here's a classic."
Posted by: at Sep 2, 2008 7:12:41 AM
Brian -I saw that episode too, and it wasn't crappy to a 10 year old either.
Posted by: liberalarts at Sep 2, 2008 9:19:38 AM
Wow. That was a serious waste of 7 minutes and 43 seconds.
Amazing how well-kempt Austin is even after the fight.
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I have no idea of the area
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