Name Clint Ballinger | ||
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Alma mater University of Texas at Austin
Southern Methodist University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Cambridge Education University of Cambridge, University of Texas at Austin | ||
Clint J. Ballinger is an American social scientist who writes about the misapplication of inferential statistics in the social sciences, international development, as well as geographic determinism from a consequentialist ethical perspective.
Ballinger received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, studying long-term economic and political development in the Anthropology department, writing his senior thesis under Professor Denise Schmandt-Besserat, his Master's degree in 2001 at the Department of Political Science of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his PhD in 2008 at the Department of Geography of the University of Cambridge with a dissertation titled Initial Conditions as Exogenous Factors in Spatial Explanation. He also holds a Master of Liberal Arts from Southern Methodist University.