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Idiot, having a sample is not the same thing as sampling. Read.

I don't deny Democrats exaggerate climate problems, but at least they understand the scientific evidence. Because they inflate the severity of the consequences of science is less moronic than discarding science altogether.

I've never heard anti-vaccine associated with Democrat/Liberal political leanings. That's more "home-school right-wing nut job" territory. I guess to the extreme opposite there's the granola naturalist who will eat green pea snaps instead of taking a measles vaccine?

I'm anti-genetic modified crops. That is a health issue, not a left/right issue.

The fact you think social sciences are made up froo-froo science says a lot about you. I have a grad degree in social sciences which required a research project. How exactly does one complete a research project in a field that isn't real science?

These guys don't agree with you either:

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/contents.php

It's expensive and labor intensive to develop and score tests without simple and definite answers. Even then the tests suffer from poor interscorer reliability. Machine-scored tests have very high interscorer reliability and the tradeoff of poor validity isn't even a blip on the radar. This is why you won't see an emphasis on abstract thinking in education reform. This is brought about by the nature of education's "big picture" which is entirely the province of people outside of classrooms. You know the adage "those who can, do; those who can't, teach"? What about those who can't teach? They go and work for the state board of education.

this is nothing new: it started before the WWI and now there are dozens of companies, universities or hobbyist doing it. It is called: "content analysis", "data mining", "discourse analysis" etc. There is a legend that sais that British intelligence managed to predict quite acurately airstrikes on England based on content analysis of Goebels' radio speeches. Take a look at this links if you are interested. Bibliography of Content Analysis Listings from Communication Abstracts, 1990-1997 Content Analysis Resources web site Text Analysis Info Page - all on text analysis and related topics The discourse analysis page of AI Topics Centre d'analyse des politiques publiques (CAPP) Département de science politique, Université Laval The Center for Social Research Methods: not necesarily content analysis, but it's good to take a look at Research Methods Knowledge Base The Annenberg School for Communication Web Concordances at the English Department of the University of Dundee Companion Website for the book Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus Journal: Language Awareness; has some free issues/articles. The General Inquirer Home Page Journal of Second Language Writing Writing Guides: Conducting Content Analysis at Colorado State University; with a nice adnotated bibliography The Content Analysis Guidebook Online, An Accompaniament to The Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberley A. Neuendorf. The Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Literary and Linguistic Computing eximancer - Practical Text Mining and Concept Mapping Journal Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation: some online articles Content Analysis News and Discussion mailing list archives some Resources related to content analysis and text analysis; updated quite recently: June 30, 2005;

this is nothing new: it started before the WWI and now there are dozens of companies, universities or hobbyist doing it. It is called: "content analysis", "data mining", "discourse analysis" etc. There is a legend that sais that British intelligence managed to predict quite acurately airstrikes on England based on content analysis of Goebels' radio speeches. Take a look at this links if you are interested. Bibliography of Content Analysis Listings from Communication Abstracts, 1990-1997 Content Analysis Resources web site Text Analysis Info Page - all on text analysis and related topics The discourse analysis page of AI Topics Centre d'analyse des politiques publiques (CAPP) Département de science politique, Université Laval The Center for Social Research Methods: not necesarily content analysis, but it's good to take a look at Research Methods Knowledge Base The Annenberg School for Communication Web Concordances at the English Department of the University of Dundee Companion Website for the book Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus Journal: Language Awareness; has some free issues/articles. The General Inquirer Home Page Journal of Second Language Writing Writing Guides: Conducting Content Analysis at Colorado State University; with a nice adnotated bibliography The Content Analysis Guidebook Online, An Accompaniament to The Content Analysis Guidebook by Kimberley A. Neuendorf. The Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Literary and Linguistic Computing eximancer - Practical Text Mining and Concept Mapping Journal Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation: some online articles Content Analysis News and Discussion mailing list archives some Resources related to content analysis and text analysis; updated quite recently: June 30, 2005;

No shit, the fact that my previous company owns source code which (I was told, sorry) they bought from a company who sold their application to Amazon, then Amazon traded it in for a custom product....

The fact that most likely these recommendations are based on Likert Scaling or Guttman (otherwise known as Cumulative) Scaling makes me flare up at the concept that they even have the balls to propose this.

No shit, the fact that my previous company owns source code which (I was told, sorry) they bought from a company who sold their application to Amazon, then Amazon traded it in for a custom product....

The fact that most likely these recommendations are based on Likert Scaling or Guttman (otherwise known as Cumulative) Scaling makes me flare up at the concept that they even have the balls to propose this.