The Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted over telephone
this cannot do other than skew ( screw? ) the demographics.
Among all 1,008 respondents, the poll had a margin of error of +/-3.5 percentage points. On questions where less than the entire sample was asked, the margin of error ranged from +/-4 percentage points to +/-5.5 percentage points.
1008 responses. of people with phones. how do you even measure a margin of error that way?
also, how many people fell into the latter rate. they donāt say. if it was most, then their headline rate 5 percentage points increase falls within their margin of error ( 5.5 percentage points )
while granted i donāt know much about statistics, it doesnāt seem particularly meaningful to me.
Iām certain itās because Garrison is a diehard Trump sycophant. The fact that Trump will overlook any faults as long as you continue to kiss his ass is the dangerous part. Whether you be a racist cartoonist no one takes seriously or a murderous despot leader. itās the same thing.
my bad. the stats at the bottom say ātelephoneā, which i out of habit shortened to āphone.ā ive never heard ātelephoneā used for ācellphoneā, and historically cellphones were excluded from surveys for reasons, so i assume landline.
iād probably need to do more digging before that could be considered as fact ( that itās not clear is itself a problem with the poll. )
the other points still stand.
1,800 seems a very small sample size for āamericansā ( they offer no information on how they choose their group to match actual demographics. ) and their reported increase may well be within their own reported margin of error ( which they donāt point out clearly because then thereād be no headline to report. )
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pew seems to include cellphones in telephones. this article from february says the response rate is at an all time low of 6% of calls
If Fox ever turned, itād be quite amusing. They have lots of ammo.
āRemember when he attended Chelsea Clintonās wedding?ā
āHere are some clips of him as President advocating Gun Controlā
āLook at him with his big city Rich New Yorker moneyā
āHe claims he owns a gun, but we have never seen it!ā
āHe is a self-professed child of IMMIGRANTSā
Especially since it pre-dated the unification of Germany by 95 years. Always planning ahead, those Prussians Bavarians Westphalians Holsteiners Hannoverians Germans.
It does seem that there is a very strong negative correlation between calling oneself āChristianā and acting in a way anyone would recognize as such. As an aside, I have decided that somewhere along the line, particularly the evangelicals somehow decided that the Pharisees were the good guys in the book they claim to revere. My own reading of the same book would suggest otherwise.
