Jonathan Schwartz Finishes His Account Of Kent Hovind’s Trial
This is the final installment of Jonathan Schwartz'a coverage of the March trial of Kent Hovind and Paul Hansen on fraud, conspiracy and contempt charges. This post is...
Court Agrees Lois Lerner’s Group Did Not Trigger Individual Audits
The problem with that type of anecdotal evidence is that every year some number of people are going to be audited for the first time. You would expect that some number of those audited in say 2011 were active in the Tea Party or similar groups.
You are never going to convince most of those people that it was just luck of the draw. It would be very hard to make a statistical inference about whether Tea Party affiliation or something like that affected individual audit probability, since it is hard to define the group that the sample is being drawn from and it is possible, even likely, that the people who became involved in the conservative causes were people who already had a higher than average probability of being audited.
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