J. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In today's local paper here on the Space Coast of Florida, an
> elementary school teacher divided her 4th grade language arts class of
> varied abilities into 3 distinct groups of 11 students. Each group
> was asked to vote using the butterfly ballot now being questioned.
> One group was asked to vote for Gore, the second for Bush, and lastly
> for Buchanan. Without exception all the kids marked the ballots
> correctly. A couple of days ago, the newspaper published another
> similar study of 77 elementary school kids again with the same
> results. Interestingly, the paper endorsed V.P. Gore and supports a
> recount.
>
Would the group of kids doing a post-hoc experiment be
biased inasmuch as the nature of the problem at hand may
have become common-knowledge by now; even among kids; and
so one would be forewarned of the error-mode in question,
and be much less likely to fall into that mode of error?
At any rate, what inference am I being prompted to draw here?
That the people who claimed to have been confused were
either (a) ignoramuses or (b) changing their tune after
the fact?
Is there some more generous interpretation, (c), say?
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