ZackM
07-17-2007, 07:56 PM
I put this together yesterday - I also include some discussion on the "margin of error" in a poll and what it really means.
"It does not appear that Pajamas Media has made any consideration of basic statistics in determining their basis for excluding candidates from their online poll. In this case, Pajamas Media has created a seemingly logical, yet arbitrary, “line in the sand” for inclusion in thier 2008 election voting widget. This “logical” approach has dropped last week’s winner, Ron Paul, off this week’s ballot. Unfortunately, this is a statistically meaningless methodology."
http://www.zackmonninger.com/blog/2007/07/16/pajamas-media-and-ron-pauls-exclusion-statistics-101/
"It does not appear that Pajamas Media has made any consideration of basic statistics in determining their basis for excluding candidates from their online poll. In this case, Pajamas Media has created a seemingly logical, yet arbitrary, “line in the sand” for inclusion in thier 2008 election voting widget. This “logical” approach has dropped last week’s winner, Ron Paul, off this week’s ballot. Unfortunately, this is a statistically meaningless methodology."
http://www.zackmonninger.com/blog/2007/07/16/pajamas-media-and-ron-pauls-exclusion-statistics-101/