10-12-2016, 12:44 PM
(10-12-2016, 12:18 PM)tigerseye Wrote: True. Therefore, making news agency polls worthless - accept for their purpose of persuading individuals who believe or want to believe what they are shoveling.
The shovels are out in force, right now.
No, they are not worthless. Not if you understand them. The problem is that most people don't understand them and/or accept interpretations of the statistics rather than looking at them for themselves.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
