Comments on: Polling the Unwired http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Thu, 24 May 2012 10:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sam http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-53222 Sam Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:48:16 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-53222 <p>If Klist and Jason are ignorant of sampling methods, you are strikingly ignorant of punctuation and spelling check...</p> If Klist and Jason are ignorant of sampling methods, you are strikingly ignorant of punctuation and spelling check…

]]> By: Sam http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-30674 Sam Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:48:16 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-30674 <p>If Klist and Jason are ignorant of sampling methods, you are strikingly ignorant of punctuation and spelling check...</p> If Klist and Jason are ignorant of sampling methods, you are strikingly ignorant of punctuation and spelling check…

]]> By: P http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-53221 P Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:40:12 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-53221 <p>Klist, I feel for your employer ... do they realize you are an ignoramous?<br><br>Jason, you are a genius ... did you come up with this thought all by yourself. Sample size is not a function of the population size but of its variability.<br><br>Are all of you ignorant of sampling methods. Antecdotes are not the basis of refuting stats just one's lazy friends.</p> Klist, I feel for your employer … do they realize you are an ignoramous?

Jason, you are a genius … did you come up with this thought all by yourself. Sample size is not a function of the population size but of its variability.

Are all of you ignorant of sampling methods. Antecdotes are not the basis of refuting stats just one’s lazy friends.

]]> By: P http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-30673 P Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:40:12 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-30673 <p>Klist, I feel for your employer ... do they realize you are an ignoramous?</p> <p>Jason, you are a genius ... did you come up with this thought all by yourself. Sample size is not a function of the population size but of its variability.</p> <p>Are all of you ignorant of sampling methods. Antecdotes are not the basis of refuting stats just one's lazy friends.</p> Klist, I feel for your employer … do they realize you are an ignoramous?

Jason, you are a genius … did you come up with this thought all by yourself. Sample size is not a function of the population size but of its variability.

Are all of you ignorant of sampling methods. Antecdotes are not the basis of refuting stats just one’s lazy friends.

]]> By: Jason http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-53220 Jason Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:17:42 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-53220 <p>Polls not accurate? You must be kidding...<br></br><br>How can anyone take seriously a newscast broadcasting the results of a question asked to, usually, less than a thousand people, and then referring to it as a statement from "the American people?"</br><br></br><br>Yeah, I always like to base my perceptions on the opinions of 0.0003% of a population. Give up on polls: they are far more useful at creating public sentiment than they are at reflecting it.<br></br></p> Polls not accurate? You must be kidding…

How can anyone take seriously a newscast broadcasting the results of a question asked to, usually, less than a thousand people, and then referring to it as a statement from “the American people?”

Yeah, I always like to base my perceptions on the opinions of 0.0003% of a population. Give up on polls: they are far more useful at creating public sentiment than they are at reflecting it.

]]> By: Jason http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-30672 Jason Sat, 18 Sep 2004 02:17:42 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-30672 <p>Polls not accurate? You must be kidding...<br /><br />How can anyone take seriously a newscast broadcasting the results of a question asked to, usually, less than a thousand people, and then referring to it as a statement from "the American people?"<br /><br />Yeah, I always like to base my perceptions on the opinions of 0.0003% of a population. Give up on polls: they are far more useful at creating public sentiment than they are at reflecting it.</p> Polls not accurate? You must be kidding…

How can anyone take seriously a newscast broadcasting the results of a question asked to, usually, less than a thousand people, and then referring to it as a statement from “the American people?”

Yeah, I always like to base my perceptions on the opinions of 0.0003% of a population. Give up on polls: they are far more useful at creating public sentiment than they are at reflecting it.

]]> By: klist http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-53219 klist Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:36:54 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-53219 <p>No surprise here. As an employee of a large news media corporation, I handle polling data almost on a daily basis.</p> <p>The typical poll target is going to be a caucasian male or caucasian family, age range 45 and above, politically and socially conservative. The "Mayberry" type if you want.</p> <p>Because of this wide spread model, it is quite easy to obtain severely skewed results.</p> <p>So far, nothing appears to be done to fix that.</p> No surprise here. As an employee of a large news media corporation, I handle polling data almost on a daily basis.

The typical poll target is going to be a caucasian male or caucasian family, age range 45 and above, politically and socially conservative. The “Mayberry” type if you want.

Because of this wide spread model, it is quite easy to obtain severely skewed results.

So far, nothing appears to be done to fix that.

]]> By: James Gattuso http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-53218 James Gattuso Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:19:04 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-53218 <p>We'll have to put you down as "undecided" in that case.</p> We’ll have to put you down as “undecided” in that case.

]]> By: Andy http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-53217 Andy Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:14:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-53217 <p>Any pollster that calls my cell phone is likely to get a string of profanity. I pay for the air time and I don't want to pay to participate in a political poll.</p> Any pollster that calls my cell phone is likely to get a string of profanity. I pay for the air time and I don’t want to pay to participate in a political poll.

]]> By: klist http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-30671 klist Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:36:54 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-30671 <p>No surprise here. As an employee of a large news media corporation, I handle polling data almost on a daily basis.</p> <p>The typical poll target is going to be a caucasian male or caucasian family, age range 45 and above, politically and socially conservative. The "Mayberry" type if you want.</p> <p>Because of this wide spread model, it is quite easy to obtain severely skewed results.</p> <p>So far, nothing appears to be done to fix that.</p> No surprise here. As an employee of a large news media corporation, I handle polling data almost on a daily basis.

The typical poll target is going to be a caucasian male or caucasian family, age range 45 and above, politically and socially conservative. The “Mayberry” type if you want.

Because of this wide spread model, it is quite easy to obtain severely skewed results.

So far, nothing appears to be done to fix that.

]]> By: James Gattuso http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-30670 James Gattuso Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:19:04 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-30670 <p>We'll have to put you down as "undecided" in that case.</p> We’ll have to put you down as “undecided” in that case.

]]> By: Andy http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/comment-page-1/#comment-30669 Andy Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:14:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2004/09/17/polling-the-unwired/#comment-30669 <p>Any pollster that calls my cell phone is likely to get a string of profanity. I pay for the air time and I don't want to pay to participate in a political poll.</p> Any pollster that calls my cell phone is likely to get a string of profanity. I pay for the air time and I don’t want to pay to participate in a political poll.

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