Re: Financing of media. "Doug Henwood" at Jul 29, 94 12:22:07 pm

[Herbert Gintis <gintis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>On Thu, 28 Jul 1994, Herbert Gintis wrote:
>
>>
>> >A copywriter for MacNeil/Lehrer once told me that he felt like AT&T was
>> >looking over his shoulder as he wrote. And that's noncommercial TV.
>>
>> 	This is  is not an alterative for real evidence, of course.
>>
>You mean talking to someone who does something isn't real evidence? If
>you can't plug it into a vector autoregression, is it worthless?
>
>Doug Henwood

	I'm sorry. It is real evidence. It is not a great deal of
evidence, however. Reliable evidence does indeed require controlled
studies, whether econometric or not. I am not really happy with
interview data (even personally received), since individuals'
interpretations and recollections are imprecise and may be filtered
through theories that are not correct.

	I try not to believe theories unless I have good evidence for
them. I find I make quite enough mistakes that way.  ;-)

Herb gintis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx