Here's a depressing statistic ...

[dogtag]

If we assume the poll is reasonably accurate, then I don't
think it bodes well for the future:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ite-House.html


Only comment for a Socialist President is Venezuela.
As for a Muslim as President - just think
what the Muslim Mayor has done for London.

[Vern Humphrey]

If we assume the poll is reasonably accurate, then I don't
think it bodes well for the future:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ite-House.html


Only comment for a Socialist President is Venezuela.
As for a Muslim as President - just think
what the Muslim Mayor has done for London.

Just think what the Muslim President did TO the US.

[S.A. Boggs]

In college a statistics course was required for my degree. Basically how to make numbers fit what the author want them to say. Where was the survey taken, what time of day, what was the population and how "random" a sample was there.
Sam

[dogtag]

And there's: Lies, Big Lies, and Statistics.

Hopefully those statistics are Very Big Lies.

[S.A. Boggs]

And there's: Lies, Big Lies, and Statistics.

Hopefully those statistics are Very Big Lies.

How do you think Hillary "won" the last election?
Sam

[blackhawknj]

So much depends on the where, when, and how of poll taking. There was the Literary Digest poll of 1936 that showed Alf Landon defeating FDR. Their problem-they called people with telephones, still something of a luxury item then. And I suspect people have become careful about answering poll takers lest you be labeled as "racist/sexist/homophobic", etc.

[togor]

In college a statistics course was required for my degree. Basically how to make numbers fit what the author want them to say. Where was the survey taken, what time of day, what was the population and how "random" a sample was there.
Sam

Sounds like you were in a crappy course or aren't a math guy. Statistical analysis is by itself an objective tool. True that in the social sciences it can be misapplied, but that's not a fault of the math. Stats are indispensable in say manufacturing for example.

[lyman]

Sounds like you were in a crappy course or aren't a math guy. Statistical analysis is by itself an objective tool. True that in the social sciences it can be misapplied, but that's not a fault of the math. Stats are indispensable in say manufacturing for example.

way back in the 80's I had a Stat class,
even back then, it was mostly political polling etc, and some on the math involved, very little on the manufacturing side was taught,

[S.A. Boggs]

way back in the 80's I had a Stat class,
even back then, it was mostly political polling etc, and some on the math involved, very little on the manufacturing side was taught,

Fun wasn't it!
Sam

[lyman]

no, not at all, the one class I truly did not like,,

[S.A. Boggs]

Stat's next to my biology class was the worst classes that I had in college, most unpleasant. After the course was completed, O.U. decided to divide the course into two semesters as the course proved most difficult! The previous course was revamped to make it more "modern" in scope.
Sam

[Jiminvirginia]

Based on my observations those numbers are likely pretty accurate.

[S.A. Boggs]

In statistics 50% of nothing is still nothing.
Sam