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To: POA2
The fact that you cannot admit it was CLEAR that NewsWeek used an incorrect model proves this - 99% of the people here on the Freep.....know this to be true.....Yet you keep insisting that there was nothing wrong with NewsWeek having such a distorted weighted Model (because they were just "normalization") -

Polls legitimately use normalization; the crux of my argument, and that is a verifiable public fact. Something you denied, then later admitted (by admitting that models were used) without realizing it because you didn't know what normalization is. You were wrong. Then you tried to back-pedal. Deal. Repeating the same red herrings and phantom arguments doesn't make you right. It's also a clever but failed tactic to straw man me into saying that I supported or 'believed' in Newsweak polling. Never said that. Deal.

The very fact that you try and use that term....shows it doesn't apply - There was nothing "normal" about their weighted model - It DID OVER-SAMPLE REP's and UNDER-Sample Dem's -

Obviously you've never taken a statistics class, or you flunked it. Normalization has nothing to do with being "normal" (now THAT was laughable). Normalization is any mathematical formula that when applied to data results in output that is normally distributed against a dependent and independent variable. Genius.
169 posted on 09/06/2004 9:09:23 PM PDT by ableChair
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To: ableChair
Polls legitimately use normalization; the crux of my argument, and that is a verifiable public fact. Something you denied, then later admitted (by admitting that models were used) without realizing it because you didn't know what normalization is. You were wrong. Then you tried to back-pedal. Deal. Repeating the same red herrings and phantom arguments doesn't make you right. It's also a clever but failed tactic to straw man me into saying that I supported or 'believed' in Newsweak polling. Never said that. Deal.

It is YOU that is compactly wrong and doesn't know what a weighted model is -

I said in my FIRST post on this thread that Newsweek used an incorrect weighted model - Get that??? -

Yet, in your own words above - you suggest I didn't say this.....Where are you from?? -

In my first post (and in about every post after that) I have said Newsweek used an incorrect weighted model?? -

How can you suggest I didn't say that....then switched and said they did?? -

You are nuts - and you have been made a fool by your continued insistence that Newsweek is a reliable polling place - It is not!! - And anyone in the bizz knows this -

Obviously you've never taken a statistics class, or you flunked it. Normalization has nothing to do with being "normal" (now THAT was laughable).

That was a joke on my part - The "normal" comment - But obviously you didn't get it - (and to think I almost took that out...knowing it would go over your head) -

Again, understand that Newsweek polls are junk - they used an incorrect weighted model - Period! -

Facts mean things - and Newsweek used an incorrect model - This is clear -

171 posted on 09/06/2004 9:17:42 PM PDT by POA2
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