thinks about this. post september 11th, the whole world was behind america. sympathies and condolences were rolling in. not to mention…the country was all but united. there was still plenty of unrest and hatred, but many lines of division that normally existed had been erased…because we all felt like one proud and sad nation.
that shit didnt last long, eh?
since then, george bush has managed to turn a large portion of the world completely against us (“how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest to saddam hussein?”) and divide the country up into two groups…pro and anti war.
blah blah blah hope it is SHarpton blah blah bet $20 on him at 3 billion to one odds blah blah makes me richest man in world if it pays off blah blah blah
Also, how come so many ridiculous OPs keep showing up by some lower case name with just a few posts? I don’t think you guys are just related, I think you’ve all got the same grass-killing forehead.
This is something that has been bugging me for quite a while here, and I guess that this is as good of a time to mention it as any.
The company that I work for authors surveying (or polling) software that specializes in gathering data and then analyzing it. We sell this software to companies around the globe. I cannot think of a single one of those companies that would consider a poll of 516 people (out of a group that is well over 200 million) that was conducted for one day to be acceptable methodology.
Now please do not misunderstand me. I am specifically not making the leap that this survey is therefore invalid, but come on people. This looks like sloppy research at best. Give me a poll of 100,000 folks taken over a month, and I will believe in those numbers.
I have a background in applied statistics, and made sure to include number polled and calculated marigin of error. Your method is a sampling which would have a much smaller margin of error, but would lose the immediacy of what this particular poll was meant to measure, specifically the change over three or four days. Our media and government is run (to an extent) off these short quickies.