Posted on 01/29/2006 2:50:30 PM PST by Wolfstar
PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush spent the weekend at the White House where they hosted GWB's parents. The family attended St. John's Episcopal Church this morning before the President went for a mountain bike ride.
Throughout his term, President Bush has sought to break down barriers that have prevented religion-based charities from using government funds. His $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly one-quarter of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggressively pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use.
Award recipients include a Christian relief organization famous for its televised appeals to feed hungry children, a well-known Catholic charity and a group run by the son of evangelist Billy Graham, according to the State Department.
Secular organizations in Africa are raising concerns that new money to groups without AIDS experience may dilute the impact of Bush's historic three-year-old program.
"We clearly recognize that it is very important to work with faith-based organizations," said Dan Mullins, deputy regional director for southern and western Africa for CARE, one of the best-known humanitarian organizations.
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Yup .. good old fishing line ... still useful, just hard to knot.
There's all kinds of thread today ....a confusing wonderland. here's just a few
These are rayon .. for machine embroidery and embellishing
The choices are endless.
Its the sample stupid!
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As soon as a pollster starts talking about "weighted" sample, I think of someone adjusting numbers to suit any client or desired result.
It makes my head hurt that I am supposed to believe that
a) questions are developed to be neutral - NOT!
b) respondents are solicited randomly
c) results are then shifted around based on some kind of scientific number of how many dems/repubs men/women etc there actually are in the US.
And we are not supposed to notice that the people writing the questions, soliciting the answers, and "weighting" the results are as biased as anyone else in the country.
I would love for one time to see poll results that are not weighted - just 1006 phone calls - period - wouldn't that be a hoot.
Ya know, I had a whole class on this when I was a psych major...about random samples and stuff like that. And I don't ever remember learning that you should change the results of your sample based on some preconceived notion of the types of groups involved. The whole POINT of a random sample is that you get a reflective sample of the whole group.
Those are great pics. I'm glad you showed me. Thanks.
Looks like I missed another fun thread. :( I am so stuned.
That's why pollsters are just the modern equivalent of entrail readers. For example, they get to decide how many of each category of respondent they will count or "weight" if that particular category does not participate in the survey. The polling company who guesses the correct proportions, gets the closest to true numbers, but it is really just educated guesswork.
Not quite sure what you're talking about.
I could be wrong but I think what he was actually saying is "I'm an idiot, please ignore me."
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