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Re: [Homestead] statistics - how-to lie with numbers

From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] statistics - how-to lie with numbers
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 12:48:43 -0700

At 9/5/2004, you wrote:

Same with polls. They are totally worthless. I don't remember if it was
part of the Statistical Math class (that prof was a real character) or part
of a sociology class but how polls are manipulated is very interesting
reading.

Unless you can see the questions, most polls are worthless. They are designed to be misleading or to sell a position.

Don Bowen
Awl Knotted Up Woodworking
Valley Center, CA http://www.braingarage.com

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- Re: [Homestead] statistics - how-to lie with numbers, Toni Hawryluk, 09/05/2004
  - Re: [Homestead] statistics - how-to lie with numbers, Don Bowen, 09/05/2004
    - Re: [Homestead] statistics - how-to lie with numbers, Lynda, 09/05/2004
      - Re: [Homestead] statistics - how-to lie with numbers, Don Bowen, 09/05/2004