That link bothers me immensely. While many of the things they describe are myths (I consider the most important part of politics to be math, and so the “there’s always more waste to cut!” guy drew a laugh here), many of the things they describe are strawmen / they handle them wrongly.
For example, consider myth #5. When you compare private industries as a whole to public industries as a whole, the difference is a statistically insignificant .4%. However, what about when you compare apples and apples, not apples and oranges? The U.S. Postal Service gets a rating of 76.1%, private mail carriers get a rating of 84.5%. Public health clinics get a rating of 74.4%, private doctors’ offices get a rating of 80.6%. If you average those two actual comparisons together, private industry’s edge is 7.3%, almost a full 10% better than the public industry’s ratings.
(Also, I would suggest “evidence against” rather than “refuting” when discussing a result, just like “evidence for” is a better description than “proving.”)
That link bothers me immensely. While many of the things they describe are myths (I consider the most important part of politics to be math, and so the “there’s always more waste to cut!” guy drew a laugh here), many of the things they describe are strawmen / they handle them wrongly.
For example, consider myth #5. When you compare private industries as a whole to public industries as a whole, the difference is a statistically insignificant .4%. However, what about when you compare apples and apples, not apples and oranges? The U.S. Postal Service gets a rating of 76.1%, private mail carriers get a rating of 84.5%. Public health clinics get a rating of 74.4%, private doctors’ offices get a rating of 80.6%. If you average those two actual comparisons together, private industry’s edge is 7.3%, almost a full 10% better than the public industry’s ratings.
(Also, I would suggest “evidence against” rather than “refuting” when discussing a result, just like “evidence for” is a better description than “proving.”)