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Re: Survey methodology relating to latest LP SPAM
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 11 Jul 2001 03:10:59 GMT
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Would you two just take it offline and shut the hell up?
How many times are people going to have to tell you that your endless sniping at
each other is the most annoying thing in this group before you shut up, play nice,
and ignore each other?
Scott A wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > When did the polling take place?
> > > What group was polled – age/sex/ethnic background?
> > > What order were the questioned asked in?
> > > Was any supplemental information given?
> > > How was the poll undertaken - telephone / face-to-face/via the web?
> > > Were any other questions asked?
> > > Who are the “polling experts at the University of Connecticut” – and was
> > > their comment related to the poll?
> >
> > http://www.freedomforum.org/publications/first/sofa/2001/sofa2001.pdf
> >
> > (methodology section)
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> Sorry, I did not see it when I read over the webpage the other day. None the
> less, I think that telephone surveys are not as good as the real thing.
> However, this is a moot point.
>
> >
> > is all the info I have. Seems like your fairly standard telephone survey,
> > and they are not claiming huge accuracy, just the fairly typical (for this
> > sample size) 95 confidence +/- 3% (for the entire group) results.
> >
> > Since this is a newspaper sponsored group, you'd think they have some
> > familiarity with how to do these surveys... Their methodology seems very
> > similar to that used by Gallup/Roper et al, with likely similarity in accuracy.
> >
> > As for your rebadging of the subject line, Scott... typical.
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> Hardly typical. Even if it was, it appears that I am not the only one who
> thought your post "spam".
>
> But it is typical of you to delete the parts of my posts you don't like...
>
> Scott A
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> >
> > ++Lar
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