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	<title>Comments on: Men are from mars, women are from gmail</title>
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	<description>i am the stig</description>
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		<title>By: J</title>
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		<dc:creator>J</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s true, but the quote refers directly to &quot;election poll results&quot; (i.e. votes) themselves, not election demographic data, as I interpret it.

Even if that were not the case, exit poll samples are numbered in the low tens of thousands (I believe CNN had n~20,000 for the 2008 presidential election), which would yield a margin of error not dramatically different from this study. Despite having far fewer responses, once you get into numbers this high the confidence is quite large: n=20,000 has a 99% margin of error (for a 53% statistic) of 0.9% and n=120,000 has a 99% margin of error of 0.4%. Naturally, that assumes a perfect sampling distribution which neither the internet survey nor the election polls were fortunate enough to have.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That's true, but the quote refers directly to "election poll results" (i.e. votes) themselves, not election demographic data, as I interpret it.</p>
<p>Even if that were not the case, exit poll samples are numbered in the low tens of thousands (I believe CNN had n~20,000 for the 2008 presidential election), which would yield a margin of error not dramatically different from this study. Despite having far fewer responses, once you get into numbers this high the confidence is quite large: n=20,000 has a 99% margin of error (for a 53% statistic) of 0.9% and n=120,000 has a 99% margin of error of 0.4%. Naturally, that assumes a perfect sampling distribution which neither the internet survey nor the election polls were fortunate enough to have.</p>
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		<title>By: endessous</title>
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		<dc:creator>endessous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>they&#039;re not taken from election returns.

demographic election data comes from exit polling, not the ballots themselves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>they're not taken from election returns.</p>
<p>demographic election data comes from exit polling, not the ballots themselves.</p>
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