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From: limerick
Originally Posted by happs22,Jul 10 2006, 02:38 PM
What I was refering to is the inherant problem with using a survey that allows for a middle score. The general population will always trend towards the center, so a scale of 1-10 will almost always have an average score of ~5. The survey is just about useless. They should have made people chose a side, maybe using a scale of 1-4 instead.
I'd also be interested in seeing the raw data.
Finally, I'm usually skeptical of anything printed in Esquire. . . I read GQ.
I'd also be interested in seeing the raw data.
Finally, I'm usually skeptical of anything printed in Esquire. . . I read GQ.
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From: limerick
look at the conclusions they came to in the survey! Where did they get that idea?
America is an increasingly religious, increasingly conservative country, right?
78% believe in "god" WTF? They should've said "higher power" I.e. god budda etc... That might turn into a different number probably higher.
But because they don't go to church we're no longer a religious country? WTF? That conclusion isn't supported by the data.
4. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is "very conservative" and 10 is "very liberal," how would you rate your political view.
Northeast - 5.5
West - 5.2
Midwest - 4.9
South - 4.9
Average - 5.1
Men lean to the left? based on this question while ignoring this one
3. Whom did you vote for in the 2004 presidential election? And if the election were held again today?
George W. Bush
2004 - 49%
Today - 34%
John Kerry
2004 - 35%
Today - 23%
Come on now 49%! How the hell did he get a majority vote, did women vote 54% for him?
They scewed their conclusions to their own satisfactions rather then just letting the data speak, and say what it could say...nothing
America is an increasingly religious, increasingly conservative country, right?
78% believe in "god" WTF? They should've said "higher power" I.e. god budda etc... That might turn into a different number probably higher.
But because they don't go to church we're no longer a religious country? WTF? That conclusion isn't supported by the data.
4. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is "very conservative" and 10 is "very liberal," how would you rate your political view.
Northeast - 5.5
West - 5.2
Midwest - 4.9
South - 4.9
Average - 5.1
Men lean to the left? based on this question while ignoring this one
3. Whom did you vote for in the 2004 presidential election? And if the election were held again today?
George W. Bush
2004 - 49%
Today - 34%
John Kerry
2004 - 35%
Today - 23%
Come on now 49%! How the hell did he get a majority vote, did women vote 54% for him?
They scewed their conclusions to their own satisfactions rather then just letting the data speak, and say what it could say...nothing
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Originally Posted by exceltoexcel,Jul 10 2006, 07:17 PM
your analysis came to a completely unsupported conclusion. While I understand your logic, and while you may be correct, you're simply missing the information needed to draw it from the results you've stated here.
When you see a question's mean response, it only means there is either a relatively equal distribution of respondent ratings. Everyone picked 4 or 5 or an equal numb er of people picked 1 and 10.
For the global power question over 51% had strong opinions while 49% had middle of the road opinions.
a score of <>.5 (on a 1 to 10 scale) from the middle often indicates something statistically significant, however, without sample sizes it would be pretty hard to determine that.
Basically this study has proven nothing relevant because they didn't publish the bucket stats. how many picked 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Now if you did a demographic/attitudinal segmentation on this data set you'd probably get some interesting and meaningful information. Good luck getting that, most of these crap stat houses only do ATU type studies and lack any reasonable advanced methodologies to draw those meaningful conclusions.
Yet another worthless study.
When you see a question's mean response, it only means there is either a relatively equal distribution of respondent ratings. Everyone picked 4 or 5 or an equal numb er of people picked 1 and 10.
For the global power question over 51% had strong opinions while 49% had middle of the road opinions.
a score of <>.5 (on a 1 to 10 scale) from the middle often indicates something statistically significant, however, without sample sizes it would be pretty hard to determine that.
Basically this study has proven nothing relevant because they didn't publish the bucket stats. how many picked 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Now if you did a demographic/attitudinal segmentation on this data set you'd probably get some interesting and meaningful information. Good luck getting that, most of these crap stat houses only do ATU type studies and lack any reasonable advanced methodologies to draw those meaningful conclusions.
Yet another worthless study.
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