Posted on 11/01/2004 8:31:24 AM PST by Obadiah
My name is Andrew Tanenbaum. I am one of the 7 million U.S. citizens living abroad. I am a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Most of you have never heard of me but in an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny corner of the universe I have done enough stuff that Google has somehow managed to dig up 10,000 pages referring to me.
When I am not collecting data, analyzing it, or blogging, my day job is doing the kind of stuff professors at major research universities normally do. The best part is working with young people, especially my graduate students.
To answer the question of why I am in The Netherlands, my lovely wife is Dutch and long ago we decided that she couldn't do her kind of work in the U.S. whereas I could work anywhere. I visit the U.S. several times a year and am thoroughly familiar what is going on there. I also read the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post on-line every day, as well as numerous political websites and blogs.
I grew up in Westchester County, just north of New York City, a Republican bastion and then the 5th wealthiest county in the country. My parents were staunch Republicans. They liked Ike. I went to M.I.T. and then got a Ph.D. from the University of California.
(Excerpt) Read more at electoral-vote.com ...
This guy, the webmaster, is a hardcore leftist. One day before the election he decides to out himself. We all knew, or suspected, that this guy was cooking the polls and was not some disinterested statistician or poll geek. The guy has had an agenda from day one and the sad thing is he played many of us like a violin.
All you had to do was check out his "humor" section to learn that - it's all anti-Bush 'toons.
he hasnt really made any bones about this before. He has talked about how he supports Kerry and wants him to win.
Maybe it should have been a bit more clear I guess, but pretty much everyone knew it.
when i 1st checked the site like 2 months ago it was known he was pro kerry cause he said it on his site
anyways i don't go there much
Yes, and this whole exercise was an ingenius marketing tool to sell his Master's program.
Too funny.
dunno. he seems pretty fair, at least in his electoral map section. I've been following that website for sometime and he follows the national trends. 'Course that is too bad he is a lib, but I don't think you can say conclusively that it has skewered his work.
What does the wife do that she can't do in America?
There's marijuana?
Then there's that other thing?
What does the wife do that she can't do in America?
There's marijuana?
Then there's that other thing?
Is his wife a hooker? What kind of "job" can one "not" do in the US unless it involves our legal system.
That, or perhaps she owns one of those hashish/internet cafes.
He did claim that he tried to be objective in his map postings, and I believe he was fairly objective until a couple of weeks ago. Now he has chosen a methodology that ensures no polls other than zogby will color his map in practically any battleground state. About 6 weeks ago he temporarily went to a more fair method (averaging recent polls) but that turned his whole map so red his democratic visitors sent him thousands of emails protesting, and he changed back.
Sites which take an average of all recent polls, like tripias.com, are closer to the truth. But, the guy at Tripias is clearly a bush supporter. I don't know of a site like this that is run by anyone truly neutral.
Although I majored in physics, I took quite a few math and statistics courses as an undergraduate and in grad school. I understand polling well
I took a couple accounting courses in college does that make me a CPA?
JACK---
that is why you can't trust someone like this to tell the truth.....you never know when they will slip into the lie. like boiling a frog.
You just made my point. The guy is manipulating poll results. Sure, he may have tried to swing back and not appear too goofy, but he is not some disinterested polling guy! He has an agenda and that has been reflected in his postings.
The Guardian? Is this the same Guardian that tried to focus it's meddling in Clark County Ohio? That Guardian? Non-partisan my left butt cheek.
Again, if you are a senior majoring in computer science and are seriously thinking of leaving the country due to the election results, you might be interested in my international English-language Masters program in parallel and distributed computer systems. If you are a faculty member in computer science, I would be very grateful if you would go to that Website and download and print the poster (a PDF file) and pin it to a bulletin board where potential students might see it and mention it in any classes you teach to CS seniors. Thank you.
By his own rules, he should have given Iowa and Ohio to Bush.... they're both on the map as "Barely Bush"
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