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Statistics can be very powerful and abused

Posted on: November 19, 2024 at 09:30:00 CT
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I would say it gets abused much more than used for its power.

and that does not even take into consideration that pollsters do all they can do to force you into a binary choice. How they actually report that, I have no idea.
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Great article on the corruption of political polls. - RHAYWORTH MU - 11/19 08:06:32
     More people running "information" businesses as a means - 90Tiger STL - 11/19 08:14:21
     dude, pickle has been telling you this forever (nm) - 90Tiger STL - 11/19 08:10:10
          No, pickle claims that small random samples can not - DHighlander NWMSU - 11/19 08:30:07
               no, that isn't all pickle claims. he's stated all along the - 90Tiger STL - 11/19 08:39:58
                    Almost everytime a poll is posted pizzle responds with - DHighlander NWMSU - 11/19 09:09:57
                         ahem - CulturedDan MU - 11/19 13:35:38
                    Now DH will keep digging the hole instead of admitting - hefeweizen MU - 11/19 08:44:26
                         Not wrong at all. Pizzle has scores of post dismissing polls - DHighlander NWMSU - 11/19 09:11:38
                              90T just posted evidence of you being wrong. Now dig that - hefeweizen MU - 11/19 10:17:22
                                   No he didn't, read some of the post he linked. Pizzle never - DHighlander NWMSU - 11/19 10:25:59
                                        You just pulled up in a backhoe. Lol(nm) - hefeweizen MU - 11/19 10:34:37
                              RE: Not wrong at all. Pizzle has scores of post dismissing polls - meatiger MU - 11/19 09:15:17
                                   No its not if you follow the rules for sample sizes. That's - DHighlander NWMSU - 11/19 10:21:30
                                   you will never convince an idiot that they are an idiot - Seagull MU - 11/19 09:26:21
                                        Statistics can be very powerful and abused - meatiger MU - 11/19 09:30:00
                                             That statement is 100% correct. Polls can be very misleading - DHighlander NWMSU - 11/19 10:29:36
                                             Lies, damned lies, and statistics (nm) - Seagull MU - 11/19 09:47:57
                         because he's a lib (nm) - Seagull MU - 11/19 08:48:20
          But it's pickle so.....(nm) - hefeweizen MU - 11/19 08:13:47




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