Posted on 09/25/2010 4:38:31 PM PDT by plinyelder
Between 6 and 7pm (est) tonight, Fox News had on Doug Schoen, the Democratic pollster and some other A$$Hat whom I believe was an author.
The discussion was about the reliability and slant of polls.
What REALLY Pi$$ed me off is .. The author dude said a Good Example of misleading numbers was .. Ta Da .. Glenn Beck and his claiming of 500,000 people at the Beck rally.
This guy CLAIMS that there was REALLY only about 90,000 people in attendance.
Here's the KICKER.
The guy CLAIMS that Farakan's Million Man March was also misleading Because .. There was ONLY about 500,000 at That Rally and not a million!
Maybe I'm not being very clear here and I'm just rambling 'But' do any of you see Why I might be .. Just a little PI$$ED?
/Rant
No point in getting angry. Just rest assured that they know they’re lying and they’re doing it out of fear.
“Charles Seif, professor at IEU, and author of the new book, Proofiness.”
Charles Seif who thinks “global warming” is real. End of his credibility.
I think that what Really got me going was how the FOX host just let it ride as fact!
dunno but he wrote a stupidass book titled ‘proofiness’ or some such nonsense.
he’s a loser.
I was there, too. I walked the whole crowd front to back, and personally estimate around 300,000, perhaps a little higher. Certainly there were more people at Beck’s rally than at the original MLK 1963 gathering, as one can easily determine by comparing the photos of both events.
“You sure it isn’t “Poofiness”?:
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception by Charles Seife
The guy is a flaming lib so I just figured he was a little "poofie" aka a poofter.
These estimators need tell us how they came up with their estimate. Seems like you could count heads in a portion of a picture and extrapolate that to the entire crowd.
“It was a joke, I dropped the “r” out of Proofiness.
The guy is a flaming lib so I just figured he was a little “poofie” aka a poofter.”
Sorry about that, right over my head. It could also be called, “Poopyness”. A light toilet humor never hurt anyone, lol.
Hehheh, my favorite kind!
There are some reliable pollsters and some who produce the requested results regardless of the facts. We're like lawyers in the sense that the decent ones don't like the way the other 90% of the profession makes us look.
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