ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoRFK Jr. candidacy hurts Trump more than Biden, NBC News poll findswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1172arrow-down14
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minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·7 months agoI admit I’m a bit surprised that we’re having a debate over whether or not selection bias is a thing (it most certainly is).
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-27 months agoAnd it always has been… Yet every election going back decades was within the margin of error of polls. Statistics are not new. They’ve been around for a very very long time. I admit, I only took one graduate level statistical analysis course, so maybe you’ve got more experience. But it really sounds like a bunch of people who don’t know anything about science complaining about science because they don’t like the results… Do you know who else does that?
I admit I’m a bit surprised that we’re having a debate over whether or not selection bias is a thing (it most certainly is).
And it always has been…
Yet every election going back decades was within the margin of error of polls.
Statistics are not new. They’ve been around for a very very long time.
I admit, I only took one graduate level statistical analysis course, so maybe you’ve got more experience.
But it really sounds like a bunch of people who don’t know anything about science complaining about science because they don’t like the results…
Do you know who else does that?