Laugh out loud media throw away quote of the day
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the finding of public opinion polls.
– A presumably ashen-faced David W. Moore, of the liberal Gallup Organization, at the very end of a long-winded discussion of the Democrats’ absurd Nominating Convention, after which their nominee actually lost a net total of 5 percentage points in a sample of what Gallup says are likely voters.
You mean if you call people only in big cities, and oversample Democrats, and undersample Republicans, and then oversample “independents” too, that you might (gasp!) not get a clear picture of what’s actually happening amongst the electorate?
Sacre bleu!
Oh, by the way: Can you imagine what the actual margin in favor of President Bush is right now?
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