Kevin Graham wrote:You assume they voted for Obama simply because they're black?
wow, what video were you watching? racist much?
Graham is a socialist, and he assumes that everyone votes upon the basis of class, race, ethnic, and gender in-group solidarity and according to notions of group self-interest.
This is why the best thing that could happen to this nation now is that Kevin stays in Brazil sucking Bertholletia excelsa nuts and sending perfumed fan mail to Hugo Chavez.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Droopy wrote:700 people, Beastie, can statistically be extended to the entire Republican voting base?
Yes. Specifically, if 49% of 700 randomly chosen Republicans answer a question a certain way, we know that if all Republicans were asked the same question, the percentage that answer that way would be 49%, plus-or-minus 3.8%.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Droopy wrote:700 people, Beastie, can statistically be extended to the entire Republican voting base?
Yes. Specifically, if 49% of 700 randomly chosen Republicans answer a question a certain way, we know that if all Republicans were asked the same question, the percentage that answer that way would be 49%, plus-or-minus 3.8%.
CFR
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
when believers want to give their claims more weight, they dress these claims up in scientific terms. When believers want to belittle atheism or secular humanism, they call it a "religion". -Beastie
yesterday's Mormon doctrine is today's Mormon folklore.-Buffalo
beastie wrote:No sensible Republican would bring up low-information voters when 64% of Tea Party supporters thought that Obama raised taxes in his first term.
beastie wrote:No sensible Republican would bring up low-information voters when 64% of Tea Party supporters thought that Obama raised taxes in his first term.
Analytics wrote:Yes. Specifically, if 49% of 700 randomly chosen Republicans answer a question a certain way, we know that if all Republicans were asked the same question, the percentage that answer that way would be 49%, plus-or-minus 3.8%.
CFR
Variance = 700 * (0.49) * (0.51) = 174.93. So, two standard deviations is 2 * SQRT(174.93) = 26.45, which implies plus-or-minus 3.8% (26.45 / 700 = 3.8%).
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Since the Tonight Show began rewarding people who can feign ignorance with a straight face, the ability of the general public, that hang out around the television studios, to mimic this behavior has been refined.
As Beastie suggested, you could find a crowd of Republicans to tell you about all sorts of fantastical things like video games killing people.