"Freedom in America or Police State?"
Friday, February 24, 2012
"Free Speech Show" - Freedom in America or Police State?
Here's today's podcast with me, Laurie Buckley, Dave Plunkett and host Bill Bronner:
"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.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Live Tweets From GOP Debate Part XV
Why do
they treat the openings of these debates like a reality show?
will not
be rising at home.
Shouldn’t Mitt Romney be singing the national
anthem?
Santorum wins
contest to be first to attack health insurance reform.
We should
send Mitt Romney back to the
State.
Mitt Romney
didn’t follow the part that was about him
I thought
the bridge to nowhere was from the 2008 debates.
Mitt Romney
is losing.
With this
group they must be talking about the special Olympics.
These
companies needed to be taken over by Bain
Capital.
What they’re
really saying is they should have broken the UAW.
Newt Gingrich’s
uterus keeps getting bigger.
Mitt Romney,
Panderer-in-Chief.
Santorum is making
a case for birth control and he
doesn’t get it.
Sex is not
bad, unless it’s with one of these stooges.
Everybody
has a ...care but Newt Gingrich.
Planned Parenthood
should stop planning!
They’re
fighting over who helped the fewest people.
Mitt Romney
keeps losing to Rick Santorum.
I hope Rick Perry and Mrs., Gingrich #3 use birth control.
Did
anybody e-verify the candidates?
Let’s
re-mantle the army Rumsfeld dismantled.
We can’t
allow illegal immigrants to have nuclear weapons.
Santorum just
called U.S. “the Great Satan” and I fit right in.
Romney reminds
me of someone giving an oral report in H.S. that he will forget when the bell
rings.
No Republican left behind.
James Tripp for President
on Education: youtu.be/wUBPc-IHjh8
Did Newt Gingrich just say “Git’er done?”
has to
take his morning after pill. Goodnight.
Monday, February 20, 2012
"Breaking Taboo" - February 20, 2012
Here's today's podcast with me, Allan Coberly, Steven Forrest and host Lakota Phillips:
"The War On Women"
Friday, February 17, 2012
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