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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 17:22:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Timothy Gould wrote:
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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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Sorry. That was an inside reference to Dave! I was referring to the
Democratic
Underground.
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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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You could have a sample size of 1,000,000, but if it isn’t random, then it is
worthless. Berkeley is arguabley the most liberal place in the US.
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--SNIP--
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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.
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“Personalities” and “political viewpoints” are not quantifiable givens. What if
I am pro-life and anti-death penalty? What does that make me; liberal or
conservative? If there were ever gray areas, it would be in these.
JOHN
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