I wish folks would stop with this misleading 18% more crap... by that method, a D+5, where Dems=35%, Repub = 30%, that’s showing 17% more Dems than Repubs? Come on... there’s already plenty of misinformation out there
please explain (being serious- not trolling)...
Thank you for introducing some statistical sanity into this thread.
What are you talking about? If you poll 18% more Dems than Repubs, in what world is that not 18%? I hold a graduate degree in computer science and make a living in data analytics so I’m curious why you believe this not to be true.
It will continue to elude people too dumb to grasp the difference between percent and percentage points.
It's no shock that legions of FReepers who have never even walked past a statistics classroom could leap to ridiculous conclusions, but you'd think 5th Grade arithmetic would be within their grasp.