what is the difference.

I gotta go to work but I'd love to talk more about this later

certainly

k sorry

i derailed this

No, you comments are inline with my current line of questioning

No, it's fine. I know you don't like birds very much.

but i am curious

No worries. I teach Transgender Medicine and it confuses me how society has been going the past 10 years or so.

we'll pick this up later

give me a ping when you are done with work

(i almost have a meeting to go to)

Where do you teach?

CA or WA?

What Slimebags...
https://youtu.be/d6Au-JpjaGM

Yes, that is what I predicted.

(Will their Ballot ever be submitted? Tune in next time on USA Today)

Wasn't the Broward County election already declared illegal?

I think it was

I don't know where to bring this, but I was in a godawful Twitter "debate" yesterday with someone who insisted the majority of Americans are for stricter gun control, and then proved it by citing a poll
where they got responses from 1,000 people.
I did the math myself and that came out to approximately .0003% of the U.S. population.
I tried to tell them that's a horrible sample size if you want to represent the views of the entire nation, but then they spent several tweets after that insisting I just don't understand how representative sampling works and I was engaging in the personal incredulity fallacy.
But I feel like I wasn't too far off. I mean, come on.

I felt like it fit in here because I feel like they were using statistics in the same way fake news would.

@Pendell not to mention that, if this twitter user regularly espouses viewpoints of a particular political tribe, then their followers likely belong to that same political tribe which could skew the results of the poll

or at least a majority of their followers

No, it was another poll, like a random call poll done by Gallup

So there wasn't likely a bias to the organization or results but still

oh that kind of poll. I thought it was one of those built-in twitter polls

Nah

It still isn't a very good sample size I think

I'd say you're right. You can see from election data the ways in which people with similar political opinions typically live near each other. It depends on how the poll was done, whether it was a small or large geographical area. If it was 1,000 people from the same city block in, say, NYC then they may all likely share similar opinions and points of view

To be fair to the poller it was done across all 50 states

*but* it was also done only right after widely reported on shootings

do you know if the poll was conducted online?

It specifically says the poll was done just a few weeks after the Florida shooting

Let me find it brb

https://news.gallup.com/poll/229562/preference-stricter-gun-laws-highest-1993.aspx

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/nyregion/snowstorm-total-delays-commute.html

Typical. Bad weather and people blame their politicians for their inability to drive and watch the weather

Politicians get blamed because they didn't properly manage the infrastructure they're in charge of

except they did

the predictions where wrong

and then people go out, think its a sunny day, spin out and clog the roads