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the world’s slackening grip on reality

Journal by c0lo

(in the loving memory of Runaway1956, who succumbed after a long battle to gatewaypundits. May his brain rest in peace, squeaky clean and smoothed over)

because "Doing your own research" is far easier nowadays than building the habit of thinking critically.
Add COVID-anxiety, a chaotic narcissistic Orange clown and compound with the lack of survival problems to solve for the everyday life in a westernized society and (where appropriate) a good dose of American exceptionalism.

 

Reply to: Re:What me worry

    (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @03:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @03:40PM (#1076174)

    Depending on how the poll is structure, you can get large false positive rates just from bad polling design.

    From the referenced paper [hopenothate.org.uk]:

    METHODOLOGY:
    Hanbury Strategy conducted a survey of 2,000 adults between September 8 and September 11 2020,
    using an online panel of respondents. To ensure the sample was as representative as possible, we
    sourced the most up to date census statistics to inform our weighting and sampling criteria, and
    collected responses according to strict quotas. Respondents under the age of 18 were disqualified.
    Each panellist was assigned an individual ID by the online panel provider, which was used to select
    panellists for the survey according to the target sampling criteria and to ensure panellists were not
    over-contacted, which limits survey fatigue and potential bias. The data was also passed through a
    series of automatic and manual checks to deal with any poor quality responses or duplication that
    might have occurred.
    Finally, to adjust for small discrepancies in sampling, the data was then weighted to be nationally
    representative using an RIM weighting scheme, which weighted respondents based on the interactions
    between region, gender and age.

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