Re: NY Times on "statisticians' view" of election

[P.G.Hamer]

Herman Rubin wrote:

>  Those who voted for Bush

<snip>

> and so push harder on the punch to make sure that it
> went all the way through.

A related interpretation is that those who were voting Gore
were less certain that they had chosen the right hole, so pressed
less positively. [They would have been quite right too -- as an
experimental test has shown!]

Peter



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