Re: [FRIAM] LIES, DAMN LIES, AND....

2006-09-20 Thread Douglas Roberts
It must be working for the Republicans. Bush's approval rating popped back up to 44% recently. I contend that if that many people actually approve of Bush, then America deserves him. On 9/20/06, Joshua Thorp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...StatisticsInteresting blog piece on bias and data massaging in

Re: [FRIAM] LIES, DAMN LIES, AND....

2006-09-20 Thread Joshua Thorp
I know that I can easily reveal my statitics ignorance here,  but why can a site like:http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Bush_Job_Approval.htmnot have any mention of confidence intervals,  or standard error numbers?  The headline is Bush up 1 point.  In a survey of 1500 people,  is that news or

Re: [FRIAM] LIES, DAMN LIES, AND....

2006-09-20 Thread Bill Eldridge
Quite the long lasting bounce - reminds me of Phil's .sig. To answer your question, the Rasmussen confidence level is on the middle frame down at the bottom, not too obvious: The national telephone survey of 1,500 Adults was conducted by Rasmussen Reports over the past three nights. Margin of