April 18, 2013
Briefly
- Stat of the Day: 77:44
- The role of statistics in the top public health advances of the twentieth century
- Measuring international travel by remote logins to Yahoo services (with graph). Stats NZ did something similar after the ChCh quake, looking at cellphone locations (more detail)
- Data editing and cleaning: where in the process should it be done?
- Is Data Science a threat to Statistics.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
I’m sure I saw a txt in (bogus) poll on Campbell live last night which had something like 80% opposed to gay marriage and 20% in favour. I’m looking for that now on the TV3 site, but I haven’t found it yet. If we can find it, that would be a great example of how wrong a bogus poll can be. Campbell specifically mentioned it had a huge number of voters as well (second largest recorded)?
It was so far off general population survey results that my wife and I looked at each other wondered aloud if they had the “yes” and “no” count reversed. Anybody have more info on that? (I’d certainly be offering it as stat of the week if I could find it).
11 years ago
Finally found this reference with a screen grab.
http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/campbell-live-poll-result-same-sex-17-april/
I’m not familiar with what happens to “yesterday’s bogus polls”. If this one has disappeared is that quite common? Or did they get the figures reversed? Did somebody they listen to point out the absurdity?
11 years ago
They do tend to disappear quite fast — I noticed this at the time of the Crafar farms controversy, when there were very conflicting bogus polls.
11 years ago