Posted on 10/01/2012 4:47:55 PM PDT by Mozilla
Let me see. Cutting your self off from information makes you smarter? Blind, stupid and ignorant is no way to go through life. I pity you. I thought only democraps were that stupid. Ta ta.
FOX NEWS network is my channel by choice, as can’t stand the rest of them...BUT on Sunday mornings I go to church and when the afternoon repeat comes on I’m tuned into FOOTBALL...
but when Wallace comes on, off goes FOX..better to hurt their rating than to listen to him...he is just too ‘tight’ and high and mighty thinking for my taste!!!!
so TURN OFF WALLACE...DON’T SUPPORT HIM WITH RATINGS...
LOL YOUR PRETTY NEW HERE...
funny you giving out advice to ‘old timers’ here at FR...
but then maybe your an ‘election visitor’ my opinion
You’re a real piece of work.
LOL YOUR PRETTY NEW HERE...
funny you giving out advice to old timers here at FR...
but then maybe your an election visitor my opinion
New to FR....been a conservative before Reagan Revolution
I can tell, by your weak comment, “you are new here”, that you have pretty much maxed out your ability to decipher what is really “conservative” or not
You made a lot of good points. I agree with them — especially the parts about the technology changing. Also, I suspect that your use of call display to filter out pollsters is more typical of conservatives than liberals (touchy-feely-talky types).
I didn’t want to post too much, so I focused on phone surveys as a short cut. Some of the new technology can be quite useful — e.g. surveys by Internet, where the sample was pre-selected, and there is follow-up to get an acceptable response rate. Other new technologies vary from less valid to less than useless. Self-selected open Internet polls (the kind we’re often asked to Freep) are useless (except to, e.g., artificially create a bandwagon effect). Robo-calling phone surveys are generally useless; but, could be useful if properly conducted.
Not so long ago, in-person interviews, and mail-out surveys were the established methods; and telephone surveys were the upstart technology. It took quite a while for telephone surveys to be accepted — and they have never been considered as valid as in-person interviews. Even in-person interviews can have plenty of validity problems. For instance, the appearance and demeanour of the interviewer can skew results. Cost was the main factor in favour of telephone surveys — and it is the main driver of the move toward Internet and robo-calling surveys.
If the pollsters are interested in quality, there are ways to address most of the problems. For instance, one of the most effective ways to improve the quality of surveys is the use of pre-selected panels. Survey companies recruit large panels of willing participants; and then survey samples from the panel. That greatly improves the response rate, and helps ensure that, e.g. cell phone users are included in the sample.
The problem is, the political pollsters seem to be more interested in serving whatever agenda their clients have, than in any professional concern about validity and reliability. We’ve only touched on the ways that unscrupulous pollsters can skew results, to suit their clients’ wishes.
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
Mark Twain
Wallace has always been ego-driven and afraid to pursue the truth if it could possibly damage his reputation.
Oooh...who got to him? Check under your bed....maybe it was the boogey man....
The only thing “worthless” on this thread is your paranoia and conspiracy hints....
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