I received this email from Rob Fishman at the Huffington Post. My answer follows. I’m the social media editor here at HuffPost (and a Cornell alum). I came across your blog online. […]
Random Samples In Polls Not Needed; Other Common Poll Errors
Pajamas Media—my new pals–conducted, or rather commissioned, their own poll in the Scott Brown-Martha Coakley race. It found, after calling more, but reporting on 946 “likely” voters, Brown ahead by 15.4%, a […]
Obama Approval Rating By Religion
Mormons, according to the pollsters Gallup, are more dissatisfied with Mr Obama than are any other group of folk. And not only that: Mormons’ dissatisfaction is dropping faster than is any other […]
A Depressing Day, With Some Hope
The election is over and, in large measure, the populace once more voted to continue voting itself funds taken from “other” people. Oh, sure, in some areas like Florida, the flood tide […]
How To Use A Poll To Predict Election Winners
The Scott Brown, Martha Coakley race is over. The results are not surprising nor undesirable. This is because anybody who dares call another—close your eyes if you cannot stand foul language—a Yankee […]
The Gold Standard Of Experimentation Exposed As Pyrite
Everybody says the “gold standard” of experimentation, and especially clinical trials, is the randomized controlled trial. A typical view is that “A Randomized Controlled Trial is an experiment or study conducted in […]
On the Morality of Global Warming Criticism
Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times and winner of a prestigious banking prize (usually mistakenly called a “Nobel”), has said that those who criticize theories of global warming are […]
Do Stricter Gun Laws Lead to More Crime? Brady Gun Law Scorecard & Murder Rates
The final installment of the Liberal Fascism review will appear tomorrow. I was inspired to write this after reading a Mike Adams column, in which he pointed to a Don Surber column, […]
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