tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post8559634666138688080..comments2024-03-22T22:39:49.773-05:00Comments on I don't know, but . . .: Who is conducting the dance?jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post-48682288573573841042016-01-17T21:31:46.810-06:002016-01-17T21:31:46.810-06:00Correcting for that kind of bias is very very hard...Correcting for that kind of bias is very very hard. A physics research team has to crosscheck the corrections, and in the experiments I've been on, do a blind analysis. I don't see anything remotely like that in political polling.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907216.post-25365978342585798962016-01-17T06:35:27.583-06:002016-01-17T06:35:27.583-06:00I'm starting to get the same feeling about pol...I'm starting to get the same feeling about polls that I've had about temperature analysis since AGW became a thing, based on reading various articles on the problems pollsters admit to having. One of the biggest problems they won't even admit to having, in fact that they claim is an integral part of the process, is the adjustment of the raw poll results so that the poll sample reflects the actual population. I'll concede that some adjustments have to be done but adjustments to 'fine-tune' the results are going to be measured against the pollster's view of what the 'real population' looks like. If that view is biased then no amount of adjustment is going to make the poll reflect reality in the same way a bias towards warming produces endless claims that "last year was the hottest recorded!" every year.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com