"John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
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> "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Ucd49.8499$HH2.1069170 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
> > news:P9149.3409$eb.176341 at news2.west.cox.net...> > >
> > > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:dlV29.4417$sI2.1798259 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > > "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:2mT29.58427$Fq6.5084565 at news2.west.cox.net...> > > > > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:nCL29.3972$9g7.936910 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > > >
> > > > > Which PROVES, once and for all, that you know NOTHING about
> > probability
> > > > and
> > > > > statistics.
> > > > >
> > > > > No wonder you couldn't do the simplest of calculations.
> > > > >
> > > > > Why don't you tell us, Oh Great White Hope For Women, exactly how
> many
> > > > > Americans The Gallup Organization needs to poll in order to get an
> > > > accuracy
> > > > > of plus or minus 2%?
> > > > >
> > > > > If you can't answer that question, you will PROVE, once and for
all,
> > > that
> > > > > attempting to educate women is a HUGE mistake, and that spending
an
> > > EXTRA
> > > > $8
> > > > > trillion only to get THIS is even worse than a HUGE mistake.
> > > > >
> > > > > John Knight
> > > >
> > > > Gallup polls are political, and don't have teh complexity of an
> academic
> > > > test.
> > >
> > > This isn't a true statement, and even if it was, this would have
nothing
> > to
> > > do with the accuracy of polls or studies. Gallup's political polls
are
> a
> > > small part of all of their polls. And even if they were political,
the
> > > exact same principles of probability and statistics apply to Gallup
that
> > > apply to TIMSS.
> >
> >
> > "The biggest errors in the Gallup Polls aren't statistical, but the bias
> > introduced because they're an obvious advocacy group.
> >
> > The above disclaimer has to *really* be applied to their polls."
> >
> > You've already agreed with me. There is an obvious bias because their
> polls
> > are subjective matters.
> >
> > Also, though the exact same principles apply, the same values do not.
> >
> Can't you get anything right, parsetree? Nobody said they agreed with you
> that Gallup's polls have "an obvious bias because their polls are
subjective
> matters."
>> That's almost exactly the OPPOSITE of what was posted, so how can you
twist
> every word you ever read 180 degrees around?
>> Let me repeat this first, then attempt to clarify the point for your
simple
> mind:
>> > "The biggest errors in the Gallup Polls aren't statistical, but the bias
> > introduced because they're an obvious advocacy group."
>> The POINT is that Gallup is now run by jews and has an obvious jewish
bias.
> If they were an objective polling organization rather than a jewish
advocacy
> organization, then they certainly *could* and *would* be able to conduct a
> poll about almost any "subjective matter" and get a truthful result.
Nope. The wording of the question creates bias, regardless.
> But when they restructure a poll question about existing sodomy laws
(which
> up to 75% to 95% of Americans support) as a "civil rights issue", then
> they've completely discredited their own objectivity about this subjective
> issue. To the vast majority of normal Americans, this is a moral issue,
not
> a civil rights issue. Maybe to the pathetic and amoral jews who possess
> such small brains that they can't even pe. without help from normal
people,
> this is a civil rights issue, but SO WHAT?
>> The problem with the credibility of Gallup's polls isn't the statistical
> error or the subject matter they poll people on--it's with their OWN
> internal jewish bias. And one of the WORST examples of their bias is
their
> abortion polls http://christianparty.net/gallupabortion.htm
I wouldn't know about these things. The majority of Canadians are in favour
of equal rights for same sex marriages. Actually, I believe more people are
in support of homosexuality than Atheism, which is truly disturbing.
