Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Replacing white people to kill gun rights [View all]jimmy the one
(2,717 posts)straw man: Yup, Planet Pew ... Where reality is extrapolated from tiny slices of data.
That's how probability works for all pollsters. Kleck had a 5,000 person sample for his dgu study.
Did I push you so much into a corner you need rely on attacking the source rather than defending your own BS? Not sure you read your own link, but you get a footstick nonetheless:
The nonprofit Pew Research Center is one of the least biased, most reliable polling organizations in the country..
Recently, though, Pew decided to turn the spotlight on the reliability of its own research. What it found was alarming: Fewer than one in 10 Americans contacted for a typical Pew survey bothers to respond. Thats down from a response rate of 36 percent just 15 years ago.
This really is irrelevant to poll taking. Only a minute fraction of all americans are represented in a poll, yet, if done randomly with a sufficient sample size, it has a great probability of being accurate within the margin of error, to its confidence level.
straw man's link, I guess he missed it: A lower response rate, on its own, doesnt necessarily imply flawed results. In a widely cited 2006 papernow director of the U.S. Census Bureauexplained how efforts to increase response rates can actually lead to less reliable data. Groves cited a 1998 study in which exit pollsters offered some voters a free pen if they participated. That increased the response rate, but for some reason, Democrats were more enticed by the pens than Republicans, skewing the results.
For what its worth, surveys today are probably more reliable on the whole than they were 30 years ago.
straw man: There's no fool .... like an educated fool
jimmy wrote: Do tell, mr grammar teacher.
straw man: Excuse me, Jimmy. Did I make a grammatical error?
None that I realized; I was alluding to your disagreement with secmo that approx. 3 of 4 Hispanics supported gun control, your opinion one that an educated fool might have, since it appears true enough.
I bet you knew it and are just blowing smoke to save face & trying to insinuate I was amiss of something.