There's all kinds of thread today ....a confusing wonderland. here's just a few
These are rayon .. for machine embroidery and embellishing
The choices are endless.
Posted on 01/29/2006 2:50:30 PM PST by Wolfstar
Yup .. good old fishing line ... still useful, just hard to knot.
There's all kinds of thread today ....a confusing wonderland. here's just a few
These are rayon .. for machine embroidery and embellishing
The choices are endless.
It’s the sample stupid!
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As soon as a pollster starts talking about "weighted" sample, I think of someone adjusting numbers to suit any client or desired result.
It makes my head hurt that I am supposed to believe that
a) questions are developed to be neutral - NOT!
b) respondents are solicited randomly
c) results are then shifted around based on some kind of scientific number of how many dems/repubs men/women etc there actually are in the US.
And we are not supposed to notice that the people writing the questions, soliciting the answers, and "weighting" the results are as biased as anyone else in the country.
I would love for one time to see poll results that are not weighted - just 1006 phone calls - period - wouldn't that be a hoot.
Ya know, I had a whole class on this when I was a psych major...about random samples and stuff like that. And I don't ever remember learning that you should change the results of your sample based on some preconceived notion of the types of groups involved. The whole POINT of a random sample is that you get a reflective sample of the whole group.
Those are great pics. I'm glad you showed me. Thanks.
Looks like I missed another fun thread. :( I am so stuned.
That's why pollsters are just the modern equivalent of entrail readers. For example, they get to decide how many of each category of respondent they will count or "weight" if that particular category does not participate in the survey. The polling company who guesses the correct proportions, gets the closest to true numbers, but it is really just educated guesswork.
Not quite sure what you're talking about.
I could be wrong but I think what he was actually saying is "I'm an idiot, please ignore me."
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