Yesterday, we had occasion to discuss Matt Bai’s dim view of political science: “My dinnertime conversation with three Iowans may not add up to a reliable portrait of the national consensus, but it’s often more illuminating than the dissertations of academics whose idea of seeing America is a trip to the local Bed, Bath & Beyond.” That’s right, he doesn’t just think that the best reporting is more valuable than academic research, he thinks that unreliable reporting is more illuminating than a dissertation. Strange. Meanwhile, Andrew Gelman rightly wonders “Would it be ok if the local Bed, Bath & Beyond were in Iowa?”
Plenty of Bed, Bath & Beyonds in Iowa, including one in Iowa City not far from the University of Iowa and one in nearby Coralville, Iowa.
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