Author Archive | Prof. Timothy Groseclose, guest-blogging

This marks my last post as a guest-blogger for Volokh Conspiracy.  I am very grateful and honored that Eugene V. has allowed me the opportunity. During the last week or two, I think I have caught the bug for blogging.  I can announce today that as of next Monday (Sept. 5) I will become one […]

In this post I discuss a companion paper for Left Turn, “Hands are Shaky and Knees are Weak?  Are Journalists Really Dupes of their Corporate Bosses?”.   Here’s how the paper begins: “There are NO liberal media outlets: they are ALL owned by corporations.  I can’t even comprehend how you managed to deny that fact in […]

In my post yesterday, when describing Chapter 6 of Left Turn, I discussed an L.A. Times article about UCLA admissions.  I noted that the article had a liberal bias—not because of any false statements but because it omitted some important true statements.  In general, it reported many facts that liberals would want people to learn […]

I think my and Milyo’s results in many ways support and are consistent with the points that Prof. Kerr made. To see this consider this fact:  As surveys show, in a typical election, Washington correspondents tend to vote 93-7 for the Democrat. It happens that the district that contains Berkeley, California voted about 90-10 for […]

Part 2 of my book is entitled “A Distortion Theory of Bias.”  It begins with Chapter 6: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Omitted Statistics.”  The following are the first several paragraphs of the chapter: In the previous chapter I applied an economic signaling model to the media.  In particular, I suggested that the news reports of […]

Professor Kerr:  Everything you said is exactly right.  Except, technically that was the methodology of my QJE paper with Milyo, not necessarily the methodology of my book. My book uses three (and if you count Ch. 14, four) methodologies.  Only one of those is the QJE-article methodology. Here is a copy of the QJE paper.  […]

If I had followed my plan for guest blogging, my second post would have discussed (i) my resignation from the UCLA admissions committee, (ii) when I resigned, why I suspected that UCLA—in violation of Prop. 209—was using race as a factor in admissions, and (iii) how an L.A. Times article distorted the truth about UCLA, […]

This week, thanks to the invitation of my friend and colleague Eugene Volokh, I will guest-blog about my book Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind. I am extremely honored and grateful for the opportunity. Later in the week, I plan to discuss some specific aspects of my book, including: (i) why […]