To: Dales
I didn't really have much more to say about the polls - they were just weird - especially the way that different groups would spin the data on the exact same polls.
Just another version of Mark Twain's "lies, damn lies, and statistics." Like we're too stupid to notice.
To: CobaltBlue
You can lie with statistics, but not to a statistician.
45 posted on
10/30/2003 8:57:37 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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