High gas prices means low approval ratings.

The correlation between President Bush’s approval rating and gasoline prices is strikingly strong — it’s got an r2 of .77 which simply means that gasoline prices are a very good predictor of his ratings.

Published by Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »

2 replies on “High gas prices means low approval ratings.”

  1. arent you missing the decimal? Isn’t the r-squared .77?

    granted, very highly correlated, but also remember

    correlation is not the same as causation.

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