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We learned that busing didn't seem to be a potent issue in the presence of other substantial issues. Brown avoided busing in the campaign, regarding it as an infinitely complex issue that was often seized on by racial demagogues.
Wilson wrote the article to justify the discrepancy between the conclusions of two reports about busing printed in the same issue of The Public Interest, Wilson's article explained.
In the same issue, Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor Social Psychology, criticized the anti-busing conclusions of an article printed last summer in The Public Interest by David J. Armor, professor of Sociology.
Pettigrew's article said that Armor's evidence was "biased and incomplete," and that his conclusions were based on unrealistic standards. Armor founded his conclusions from a "weak METCO study"--a study of busing in Boston--and on the assumption that integration is a technical rather than a constitutional matter...
Defending the different interpretations of the busing data, Wilson said that different social science evaluations can expose the complexities of a problematic situation and increase awareness of the unintended as well as intended outcome of any policy intervention.