Behold! Christian Power Rankings!
How the authors' Christian Power Rankings should have been determined...
Welcome back. Last time, I looked at how Lawrence Meyers critiques Graves and Peterson’s thoroughly biased, pointlessly religious anti-payday loan paper. Let’s continue with the analysis of Meyers’ views on “Usury Law and the Christian Right: Faith Based Political Power and the Geography of the American Payday Loan Regulation.” Appare ntly, the authors were pious enough to devise a stat called “Christian Power Rankings.”
CPI: Kokomo
Could be a new CSI, but it’s much less dramatic and the acting falls well below the Caruso threshold. Graves and Peterson have created “Christian Power Rankings” (CPI) that take three factors into account. As Meyers sees it, two of these are taken from “incomplete data and sampling bias.” The authors have this to say about criteria number one (per capita density):
The per capita density of Evangelical Christians and Mormons involved trying to rank states based on the simple percentage of people whom we believe are prone to use their Christian Faith to guide them as they vote for public officials. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Payday Loans and the Christian Power Rankings (Pt. 4)"
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