> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 15:37:14 GMT > From: Gene Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Legal statistical flimflam > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bob Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hasty writing -- I was responding to the cited > > post. More than two questions were considered by > > Hengartner -- he had charts indicating the > > possible effects of recounting Dade County were it > > to behave as did the other recounted counties. > > Hengartner presented one very interesting analysis. A huge issue in the > post-election debate is bias by the Broward County election board in > assigning dimpled chads to Bush and Gore. Governor Marc Racicot from > Montana, Gov. Whitman, and Bob Dole have all accused the Broward County > Board of bias in favor of Gore. > Hengartner's simple analysis shows that after the machine recount in > Broward County, the percentage of Bush to Gore votes was 31% to 69%. > The additional votes, after the hand recount and assignment of some > of the "undervote", were in the percentage of Bush 34% to Gore 66%. > Hengartner simply stated that the direction of the change didn't even > warrant a test for bias in favor of Gore. Very clear analysis. > The full transcript is available on the Washington Post web site. > > - -- > Eugene D. Gallagher > ECOS, UMASS/Boston > Any chance you could give an exact web address for that transcript? I couldn't find it on the Post's texts etc. area, nor on a search for 'Hengartner.' Jay -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.a2q.com The A2Q Method (tm). What do you want to improve today? ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
