Posted on 01/21/2014 6:57:37 PM PST by PaulCruz2016
Okay, I’m too much of a teacher to leave you stranded in stupid land. A subset can act as a subset ONLY in comparison to OTHER subsets…because THATS the reason they are a subset to begin with in a given poll.
However, just because 800 Republicans is a valid subset in a poll of say 2200 total adults - because they are being contrasted to those other 1400 adultsand NOT to each other - does NOT mean that 800 is valid as the entire set of a given national poll, where those 800 are being contrasted with just the other 799.
These are two entirely different metrics……do you follow?
No, I think your logic is off.
If you’re surveying Republicans about their preferences among GOP presidential primary candidates, there is no greater validity to the answers to those questions if they are part of some larger poll that queries other, non-GOP respondents on other questions as well, than there is with a poll that surveys only an equal number of Republicans on their GOP primary preferences—and doesn’t go through the process of also asking non-Republicans other questions.
Three RINOs and a borderline wackjob leading the list. We’re in trouble.
I have plenty of weaknesses…but dude, logic is not not not not not one of them and not even close.
Yet you can’t concede my point.
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