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tbomachines · #28 08-20-2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by sjh

Discussion in the public forum.

You start somewhere.

Since the preferred mode of many is shrillness I offer an alternative.

You surely don't believe you are the only academic; this site has a dozen or more.

Adjust sample as one wants.

I suspect even with a wide latitude of settings the results will be consistent.

This allows the discussion to move from rhetorical to actuarial.

In real-world scenarios that is considered progress.

Dismissing with a few sentences, of course is an alternative.

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I know I'm not the only one in here, I wasn't implying that and we've been over this before. Anyways to make your sAmple work you would need to know where each of these 20 people objectively land in the greater spectrum of political partisanism. Until you determine that, you have no way of verifying that they are even close to representative, nor do you have the objectivity needed to determine whether they are even "political" and to what degree. Just saying someone exhibits "left" or "right" characteristics from your point of view means nothing to me unless it has supporting data. If you want to go about this scientifically as it seems from your firs post I think you are probably not going to get too far. Anecdotally I think you have a case.