Math Indicates Pollster Is Forging Results

An anonymous reader writes "Nate Silver suggests the political pollster Strategic Vision is 'cooking the books. And whoever is doing so is doing a pretty sloppy job.' Silver crunched five years worth of their polling data, and found their reported results followed a suspicious pattern which traditionally suggests fraud. The five-year distribution of the numbers 'is not random. It's not close to random.' The polling firm had already been reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research for failing to disclose their methodology, though the firm argues they did comply with the organization's request. Their response to Silver's accusation? 'We have a call in to our attorney on this and fully intend to take action that will vindicate us.'"

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Re:Strategic Visions Inc. != Strategic Visions, LL

[interkin3tic]

Not to mention you missed being the first one to point that out by half an hour!

I tease. I was of course the one who screwed up, and it is important to correct people who accidentally talk trash on the wrong person. Not correcting me would be helping the bad strategic visions, thank you.

Re:BRILLIANT!

[smpoole7]

The thing is, the Republicans are not my "cherished party." And the fact is, the Democrats DO "do it, too." That was rather my point. Nice strawman, but I'm not taking the bait. :)

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Whenever I see anyone who is an outright partisan -- Democrat no matter what, *OR* Republican no matter what (you apparently missed that in my post), I see one of three things:

1. Someone who is an active member of the party. Read: an operative, perhaps even a paid shill.

2. Someone who, to be fair, may not be a paid shill, but whose friends are so rabidly partisan that they feel like they have to be (i.e., peer pressure).

3. Someone who's an idiot.

Decide where you belong. If you believe that EITHER party is pristine, moral and has only the best interests of the country in mind, you're #3.

Nice try.