David Gerard wrote:
On 01/02/07, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
I'm wondering what the opinions of "influential Wikipedians" are regarding this MSNBC poll that shows 40% of over a thousand people think like I do? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16795533/
My opinion is that self-selected samples are statistically bogus and inherently meaningless. In the press, they are mostly for amusement value. See [[self-selection]].
Pretty much. I would say this privately, but it's worth saying publically - Gregory, you know that I don't disagree with your position as a whole, but you're not going to win over your critics with this sort of thing.
-Jeff