I don't think Paul Krugman actually understands probability and statistics. Like, at all: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/math-is-hard/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto …
@nothings Only if you assume that they are all correct. But if they were, then you'd only need one of them anyway. And they may overlap.
-
-
@cmuratori "Correct or incorrect" oversimplifies. Polls have margins of error; the truth may or may not be within that margin or not. -
@nothings "Correctly done", as in, an actual random sample (which none are).
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
@cmuratori Again I refer you to the Nate Silver post I already linked which goes into detail about sources of error in the polls.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.