> >
> > NUMBER WORDS CORRECT IN VOCABULARY TEST
> > POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION Mean N Std Dev Grouped Median Std.
Error of Mean
> > STRONG DEMOCRAT 5.83 263 2.22 5.81
.14
> > NOT STR DEMOCRAT 6.02 365 2.01 6.00
.11
> > IND,NEAR DEM 6.17 231 2.22
6.14 .15
> > INDEPENDENT 5.71 284 2.08
5.72 .12
> > IND,NEAR REP 6.41 163 1.99
6.47 .16
> >
> > NOT STR REPUBLICAN 6.05 337 1.98 6.08
.11
> > STRONG REPUBLICAN 6.23 206 2.12 6.38
.15
> > Total 6.03 1849
2.09
> > 6.05 .05
> >
> > I apologize for the sloppy formatting, but I'm sure readers of this
non-political
> > newsgroup are numerate enough to figure out what is going on. Oh
yes, P = .008.
>
> This evidence hardly supports the contention that Bush voters are MORE
> likely to be LITERATE. What it apparently supports (although I'm sure
> readers of these NGs are sufficiently sophisticated to know the
> differences between liars and statisticians ;-) ) is that they are
> likely to be MORE LITERATE. BTW Iowa, which has the highest literacy
> rate in the nation (the last I heard) voted slightly in favor of Gore.
> In any case, the right to vote does not depend on literacy. Of course
> I know Virginians are nostalgic for the old days when only the landed
> gentry were allowed to vote. ;-)
>
you can also combine the Florida exit polling data with the following
summarized data from a recent conference on illiteracy:
In general, a clearer view of why so many U.S. adults demonstrated
limited English literacy skills was
presented including the following profile of those
with lower literacy skills:
25% who performed at the lowest level were
immigrants
nearly 2/3rds of those at the lowest level did
not complete high school
1/3 of those at the lowest level were over the
age of 65
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla66/papers/122-139e.htm
exit polling makes it clear that Gore handily has the 2nd group....
mlewis
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