Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label polls. Show all posts
Friday, May 04, 2012
Friday, March 02, 2012
"Comedy Nation This Week" - March 2, 2012
Here's today's podcast with me, Laurie Buckley, Dave Plunkett and host Bill Bronner:
The panel discuss recent deaths in the news, Iran, Education and more.
Trippitorial - Education
Are you as tired of book learnin’ as I am? Jesus Christ
never went to college. Do you think you’re better than Jesus…who?
Americans are as smart as they need to be, as smart as I
need them to be. Who do they think they are? Learnin’s too good fer ‘em! Snobby
Americans! They want to make you like them---Smart! Don’t fall for that.
I’m James Tripp and I want to be known as the education
president as long as the voters aren’t educated about me. I believe that people
should be educated, but they shouldn’t be so educated that they vote for
somebody else.
Do you want this country ruled by a bunch of college
graduates? Of course not. I want a president I can throw up on and who can
throw up on me.
America doesn’t work from the top down. It works from the
bottom up. This doesn’t mean we’re all asses.
We don’t need people who know everything telling people
who know nothing some things they might not want to know. We need people who
know nothing to tell people who know something that nothing is better than
something because only some people can know some things, but everybody can know
nothing.
Elitists.
In America, anyone
can grow up to be president as long as the voters don’t know any better. As
soon as people realize they’re better off not knowing, they’ll be better Americans.
And by the way, I know. And I’m not gonna not know.
Elitist.
Don’t bite that apple! And go to church! Sinners. You’re
all sinners in the hands of an angry god!
Friday, February 24, 2012
"Comedy Nation This Week" - February 24, 2012
Here's today's podcast with me, Laurie Buckley, Dave Plunkett and host Bill Bronner:
A sampling of this group did not know they were being sampled as part of a group. I point this out because polls have indicated that responders behave differently depending on whether they are alone or part of a group. Some polls show that once people have been told they are part of a group, they act like the group, even if they are physically separated from the group.
One pollster was so fascinated by the statistics of these results that he decided to identify a random sampling of people that he designated as a group, but only behind their backs. The people in the group were isolated during questioning and never met any of the other members in the group. At no point were they told they were part of the group. Even so, the results of asking the same questions from the original survey produced similar results. What can we deduce from this? I’m not a statistician. And besides, I’m making this up anyway.
This brings up the troubling point that sometimes pollsters just make the answers up. This can lead to some interesting surveys and we should probably take a poll to find out what happens when people believe a made up poll.
I have the results here. Sixty seven percent of people polled believed that the made up poll was real. Eighty-two percent of those polled believed the previous statistic.
Interestingly, one of the respondents from the isolated group survey suffered for years from separation anxiety that doctors could not identify. Perhaps we should ask them some questions to see if it is a reasonable hypothesis to conclude that being separated from a group that you do not know you are part of can cause the symptoms that were displayed. But I digress, and I see that we are out of time.
The panel discuss the GOP debate, the "War on Women" and more.
Trippitorial: Polls
Recent polls suggest that 23% of
pollsters don’t believe in polls. This is shocking and I called up several
people to talk about it.
A sampling of this group did not know they were being sampled as part of a group. I point this out because polls have indicated that responders behave differently depending on whether they are alone or part of a group. Some polls show that once people have been told they are part of a group, they act like the group, even if they are physically separated from the group.
One pollster was so fascinated by the statistics of these results that he decided to identify a random sampling of people that he designated as a group, but only behind their backs. The people in the group were isolated during questioning and never met any of the other members in the group. At no point were they told they were part of the group. Even so, the results of asking the same questions from the original survey produced similar results. What can we deduce from this? I’m not a statistician. And besides, I’m making this up anyway.
This brings up the troubling point that sometimes pollsters just make the answers up. This can lead to some interesting surveys and we should probably take a poll to find out what happens when people believe a made up poll.
I have the results here. Sixty seven percent of people polled believed that the made up poll was real. Eighty-two percent of those polled believed the previous statistic.
Interestingly, one of the respondents from the isolated group survey suffered for years from separation anxiety that doctors could not identify. Perhaps we should ask them some questions to see if it is a reasonable hypothesis to conclude that being separated from a group that you do not know you are part of can cause the symptoms that were displayed. But I digress, and I see that we are out of time.
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