Re: fla election & stats

This is silly. Why inconvenience the voters when a news blackout until ALL the polls are closed will do the trick? The overzealousness of the press does not trump the people's right to vote. Personally I have no respect for anyone who lets some talking heads decide for them whether or not they wi

Re: fla election & stats

this is the perennial issue in national elections about ... if it looks like the election is sewn up from the east and south ... then what is to motivate those in the napa valley to leave their vinyards and head for the polls? i do think there are some data that roughly show that voter turnout is

Re: fla election & stats

On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:56:03 -0500, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What is your corollary issue? I don't see that you name one ... I It is simple. If your state was divided into two time zones and it was announced the election for all intents and purposes was "over," would you stand

Re: fla election & stats

On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:38:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Williams) wrote: < snip, SS about "data quality" > > Another corollary issue is the media calling Florida for a candidate > based on common exit poll data prior to the closing of the polling > stations due to differing time zones within the

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Re: fla election & stats

On 5 Jan 2001 08:15:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) wrote: >Data quality: What caused the two premature calls for Florida in the media >on election night? Are exit polls a useful source of information? > >Data quality again: What is the impact of having different standards for >c

RE: fla election & stats

>In article , > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) wrote: [A list of statistical issues raised by the Fl election] >If there were other important statistical issues raised by this >election, let me know so I can add to this list. >Steve Si

RE: fla election & stats

Frank Bokhorst writes: >As Dennis pointed out in an earlier mail, many >of the issues were not statistical. A better term >is perhaps >methodological", but so be it. One >cannot always deal with these matters in isolation >when "real life" examples are discussed, and the >value of such exam

Re: scales

i think most would agree that the inclusion of something akin to ? on an item scale creates problems ... but, the lack of having that ? does not mean that all problems go away ... because, even in that case ... what does a S do if they truly have not particular leaning one way or the other? un

Re: Scale on survey questionnaire

At 05:56 AM 1/5/01 +, James Aldren wrote: > The paper doesn't actually mention ?s at >all, which suggests to me that this probably isn't a very common, and >certainly >isn't a recommended thing to do. i think by common convention ... the midpoint could be seen as ? or (some middle number)

Re: OT: psychological test for recruitment in Statistics

On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:42:02 -0500, Rich Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >alf> >> The problem is not the existence of literature, the problem is the >> content. > [ snip, ... essentially 'cite the good literature, in great detail' ] Not exactly -- I was asking for 'the good literature' in the

Re: Number of classes.

i randomly generated some data for n=200 and n=2000 from an integer distribution ranging from 20 to 50 ... in the older graphics mode, here is what i got Histogram of C1   N = 200 Midpoint    Count   20    6  **   24   24    28   

scales

An example might shed some light on one point involved here. Recently Plymouth State College considered the possibility of arming -- well, part of the question was WHOM. Many of us refered to them as Campus Security while they insisted they were Campus Police. Looking at old phone books it appe

Re: Scale on survey questionnaire

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --7BA592567A43C83B890B0B6C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The ? is guaranteed to be a catch all. Understandable statistical analysis will be conditional on receiving other responses. Nobody should

Re: Scale on survey questionnaire

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --D59B8CE81F610975488820BF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "For budget reasons it wasn't possible to translate the questionaire..." That seems to hide some interesting issues. You pay consultants

Re: OT: psychological test for recruitment in Statistics

Rich Ulrich wrote: > Computers do better than experts in making medical > diagnoses when the correct answer has to be from a narrow set. I think that some of the early systems also were better than humans at identifying the possibility of unusual diagnoses. AFAIR it took the humans to reach a fi