To: ShandaLear
"Time and Newsweek risk being over shadowed by more reputable polling. Especially if other polls settle in at a 7-8% lead. "
- I'm no statistician, but the over-weighting seemed to be producing about a 3% increase in the spread between Bush and Kerry. In other words Time and Newsweek were showing about a 11% spread when in fact it was closer to 8%. This 3% difference is within the margin of error for such polls so even if a more reputable poll came in at a 8 or 9% spread, they wouldn't be too embarrassed - the difference could be explained away as merely a sampling deviation.
To: finnigan2
So, do you think turning this into somekind of conspriacy theory may be jumping the gun a bit?
67 posted on
09/05/2004 11:13:28 AM PDT by
ShandaLear
(Swifties v. MoveOn.org: David slays Goliath)
To: finnigan2
"I'm no statistician, but the over-weighting seemed to be producing about a 3% increase in the spread between Bush and Kerry. In other words Time and Newsweek were showing about a 11% spread when in fact it was closer to 8%. This 3% difference is within the margin of error for such polls so even if a more reputable poll came in at a 8 or 9% spread, they wouldn't be too embarrassed - the difference could be explained away as merely a sampling deviation." Nice point. They skewed the poll as much as they could safely get away with: 3%. Our 11% lead is really only 8%.
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79 posted on
09/05/2004 12:39:21 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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