"Pro-Choice" Americans at Record-Low 41%
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you clearly don't know how statistics work. that's a very meaningful sample. 95% confidence level+
you clearly don't know how statistics work. that's a very meaningful sample. 95% confidence level+
Maybe so, but it's still only 1,024 people.
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that doesn't matter that it's "only" 1024 people. Statistics is a science. you only need a sample size of around ~300 to have 95% confidence in your polling data.
Yes it does matter. 1,024 people is 1,024 people, not the entire country. Doesn't matter what the 'science' of statistics is, nor the 'science' to the way questions are framed to elicit particular answers. 1,024 people does not equate to the entire country.
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I will be applying that same bullshit every time you bring up a poll where Obama is ahead, right up until the election. If you object, I will quote this post.
Yeah, you do that. Should be pretty funny, too, since I haven't and won't be bringing up any 'polls'.
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LOL. Do you know anything about anything? The idea is that by selecting random individuals from geographic areas that collectively represent the makeup of the population, we get a fairly accurate idea of the views of the general public. That's how scientific polls work. They've being doing it that way for a long time, and there's a reason for that: they're usually pretty accurate.
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Yeah, you do that. Should be pretty funny, too, since I haven't and won't be bringing up any 'polls'.
We'll see about that.
Yes, I'm well aware of how polling works, Azathoth. 'Fairly accurate' is highly subjective, due a number of factors, not the least of which relates to how the questions are framed. In other words, you can pretty much set it up to get exactly the results you're hoping to get. In other words, polls mean diddly squat. That's why I don't refer to them, don't cite them, don't trust them, don't participate in them and don't rely on them for my info.
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You can believe whatever you want. Believe the earth is a 6,000-year-old flat disc for all I care. You're denying a science backed up by decades of results.
Yippee-skippee. You go ahead and cling to your polls and I'll do what I do, which is remind people that their assertion about the entire country is really only 1,024 people.
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Hmmm that's a good point DH.
People lie, like me, when contacted by pollsters.
Of course they do. I won't even bother with lying. When asked if I'll participate, I tell them 'no'.
no it doesn't matter.
and yes, 1024 does equte to the entire country. you can extrapolate data. go educate yourself.