I am Karin, very interesting article that contained the information I was searching for in Google, thanks.

Read it and weep, Gorebots.

SFL you wanted science? There it is.

But it makes for good entertainment.”

And this from the poster who never responded to the science I posted about Global Warming that showed the human contribution to CO2 generation was a small fraction, that CO2 is a minor greenhouse gas anyway, and that the effects on the Global Warming trend contributed by the greenhouse effect are unknown!

SFL responded by saying that everybody knows it, all the scientists agree, blah, blah. I post real information, and SFL posts rhetoric and opinion.

What do you know about science, SFL? Do you have a degree in a science (political science doesn’t count)? Engineering? Having seen “An Inconvenient Truth” is not a qualification, btw.

Drake, if you really knew “quite a bit” about the science of statistics and sampling, you wouldn’t be knocking it. Did you study statistics extensivly in college? No? Just one class?

Of course internet polls are unreliable, they aren’t scientific. (!) There is a big difference between those kinds of polls and the scientific ones.

Honestly, your team is only knocking polls because they’ve not reflecting what you believe to be true.

And in cases where they DO line up with what you believe, all of a sudden you trust them again.

Take for example the topic Peejz posted about the “Latest Harris Poll”.

but I don’t see why calling John Kohn by his family’s real name is “inflammatory rhetoric”?

I mean, even if he kept his family name, “Kohn”, he would still have the initials that he so desired…. JFK.

I do that, just to point out the outrageous phony that he was… “I don’t own an SUV” “I was in Cambodia” “those weren’t MY medals thrown over the white house fence” “I voted for the war before voting against it”

it’s really not swiftboating to point out the outrageous lies this guy uttered.

anyway, any pearls in particular?

SFL I’m glad you’ve finally come to admit your shortcoming. Seriously how can you be so arrogant? I happen to know quite a bit about statistics, and the way most media polls, and worse yet internet polls, are run are atrocitious. Misleading questions, poor samples, poorly analyzed, self sampling polls, the list just goes on and on. They are far from scientific, but hey it’s big money. I would personally like to see all political polls bannned during elections because BOTH sides misuse them so ridiculusly that they are meaningless.