Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who helped run Hillary Clinton's campaign at the end of the 2008 primaries, told me, "Reagan had a kind of very robust narrative with real explanatory power for people.
Almost all the information is strictly visual; there are very few explanatory labels anywhere.
ANY/A is a very good explanatory stat, but for predictive purposes, I use net yards per attempt.
Which, if you think about, say, Ben Nelson's or Joe Lieberman's positions on extending tax cuts for the wealthy, is a very powerful explanatory framework.So that's one reason why I see more in Lawrence Lessig's essay than my colleague does.
But this, it may be thought, is hard to square with the fact that they have such very different explanatory, predictive, and rationalizing potential.
Both are versions of the How question, but they ask about the prospects of very different explanatory projects, and thus may differ in their answers (Lycan 1996).
For males, the D statistics for Model 1 are uniformly close to zero indicating that demographic and background variables have very little explanatory power.
That is very self explanatory, but essential when you are a single mom.
Although the overall model was statistically significant, it had very limited explanatory power (R2 = 0.056).
