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On Keeping Touch with Reality and Failing to be Befuddled by Mathematics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2009
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Peter Morriss (see pp. 595–7) criticizes most applications of mathematically derived power indices, including mine and the response to my original Note. He uses uncomplimentary terms, implying that we are not only wrong but also fools for being wrong.
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3 Morriss, , PowerGoogle Scholar, contains a cogent development of this case: see especially pp. 184–6.
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