Re: [EM] Portuguese dictator should be the greatest portuguese?

2007-04-09 Thread David Cary
Welcome to the Electorama list. -- Even without Chicago style voting (vote early, vote often) in this phone poll, the small response rate (about 1.5% of the population) and rumors about two polarizing front runners made the results especially sensitive to sample/participation bias. That effect

Re: [EM] Portuguese dictator should be the greatest portuguese?

2007-04-07 Thread Juho
Some quick and short comments. On Apr 7, 2007, at 4:04 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is, besides the Plurality criteria, that in the last > weeks before the end of the telephone voting there were some > newspaper rumors that AS and AC were going to win the election, so > everyone

Re: [EM] Portuguese dictator should be the greatest portuguese?

2007-04-07 Thread David Cary
Welcome to the Electorama list. -- Even without Chicago style voting (vote early, vote often) in this phone poll, the small response rate (about 1.5% of the population) and rumors about two polarizing front runners made the results especially sensitive to sample/participation bias. That effect

Re: [EM] Portuguese dictator should be the greatest portuguese?

2007-04-07 Thread David Cary
Welcome to the Electorama list. -- Even without Chicago style voting (vote early, vote often) in this phone poll, the small response rate (about 1.5% of the population) and rumors about two polarizing front runners made the results especially sensitive to sample/participation bias. That effect

[EM] Portuguese dictator should be the greatest portuguese?

2007-04-06 Thread ricben
Dear all, I’m new to the Electorama list and also a begginer to voting methods. I would like some guidance from the list on how to guess the results of an election, that recently took place in my country, if different voting procedures, other than Plurality, were used. The story follows. The p