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Tag Archives: polls
How to Tell if a Political Poll is Legitimate
Four things to look for. Why People Hate Polls It’s probably true that everybody has taken a survey at some point or other. What’s also probably true is that most people think polling is easy. And why not? Google has … Continue reading
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Polls Apart
Election season is fast approaching so you can be sure a plethora of polls will soon be adding to the mayhem. Polls educate us in two ways. They tell us what we, or at least the population being polled, think. … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, cats, margin of error, number of samples, politics, polls, population, sample size, samples, statistics, stats with cats, surveys
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Six Misconceptions about Statistics You May Get From Stats 101
When you learn new things, you can develop misconceptions. Maybe it’s the result of something you didn’t understand correctly. Maybe it’s the way the instructor explains something. Or maybe, it’s something unspoken, something you assume or infer from what was … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, data scrubbing, math, measurement, number of samples, polls, population, resolution, sample size, samples, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, surveys, uncertainty, variability, variance
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Ten Fatal Flaws in Data Analysis
1. Where’s the Beef? In a way, the worst flaw a data analysis can have is no analysis at all. Instead, you get data lists, sorts and queries, and maybe some simple descriptive statistics but nothing that addresses objectives, answers … Continue reading
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Tales of the Unprojected
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, cats, client, communications, objectives, politics, polls, project management, relationships, reviewer, statistical analysis, statistics, stats with cats, surveys
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Purrfect Resolution
No matter what their area of expertise, statisticians are asked certain questions with such predictability that it borders on the deterministic. No question is asked more often than: How many samples do I need? Most statisticians wish they could answer … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, number of samples, polls, resolution, rule of thumb, sample size, samples, statistical tests, stats with cats, surveys, trend, uncertainty
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Reality Statistics
During the 1970s, statistical analyses were done on mainframe computers that were as big as elephants. They were sequestered in their own climate-controlled quarters, waited on command and reboot by a priesthood of system operators. Conducting a 1970s era statistical … Continue reading
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Tagged cats, hardware, PCs, polls, SAS, software, SPSS, statistics, stats with cats, surveys
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Stats With Cats: What’s inside
Stats With Cats is a great companion to any introductory textbook in statistics. You won’t find a lot of equations or descriptions of the central limit theorem, probability, and hypothesis testing. You can find that information in traditional statistical texts. … Continue reading
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