Econ Students Debunk Study Showing Drastic Rise in Hate Crimes Following Trump Rallies

A study purporting to show area hate crimes tended to spike following Trump rallies, which went viral earlier this year, is fatally flawed in its methodology, according to a new analysis by two economics P.h.D. students at Harvard University.The study, which found a 226 percent increase in white-nationalist propaganda and hate crimes in counties that hosted Trump campaign rallies, failed to account for political campaigns' preference for hosting rallies in highly populated areas that natura