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Re: Statistics and Polls
Posted By: Crystal109, on host 71.141.240.142
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2006, at 18:51:08
In Reply To: Re: Statistics and Polls posted by Masterwabbit on Tuesday, October 10, 2006, at 17:05:51:

> > This is probably too much detail to be interesting, but I figured I'd let you all know that once again, Rinkworks is one of the only things in which I can apply what I've been learning. And now I think I'm going to look at all the past polls to check out how unusual the results are. (The more people responding means an even distribution theory will be put to the test.) Yay for Rinkworks!
> >
> > ~Crystal"Let's not go into the self-justification processes I've witnessed once I took social psych"109
>
> You're going to check the answers for unusual results. Even though some of the questions
> are unusual themselves? Including the skewed ones like the one provided below?
>
> Well good luck to you on that.

Heh. Here's where I apply what I learned in government on these kinds of polls: wording matters. So the public surveys from CNN and Gallup all have different kinds of wording and get different results.

Really, it is very interesting. Kind of.

~Crystal"mind-boggling, to say the least"109

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