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Re: A Berkeley Study That Portrays Liberalism Positively?!!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:57:40 GMT
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I read about this on a certain Other Forum and basically said “eh.”
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lol For the record, I signed up again with yet another email addy, and was
summarily nuked; they must checking IPs. I have officially given up life in
the underground. Pity.
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????
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It’s a too-small sample size from a too-small geographic area. I’d say it’s
close to meaningless, and in any case the factors of adolescent life and
parental leanings likely weigh more upon one’s political destination that
does one’s own “whininess.”
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Agreed.
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Disagree. One hundred people is a decent amount (error is proportional to
1/sqrt(sample size)). Besides, if the sample size was considered inadequate in a
statistical sense by the experts in the field who review the paper then it would
not have been published.
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What bothers me
most about this (to Tim as well) is it assumes that people are cast somehow
in their political viewpoints. Doesn’t make sense to assume that, it seems
to me.
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What it says is that about 7% of a persons political viewpoint has a correlation
with their personality. Which seems reasonable to me.
The fact that the article actually discusses this is why I said it’s a pretty
good science article. It’s rare to see any mention of the REAL statistical
conclusions.
Tim
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