Hadron Colider back on track... So they say.

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Re: Hadron Colider back on track... So they say.

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Captain Seafort wrote:Depending on the question asked, the numbers could well be accurate - the problem is that someone (a ten year old maybe) needs to explain to Fox the concept of overlapping populations.

Yeah...

Or they should just be completely disregarded as possibly intelligent...
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Nickswitz wrote:Or they should just be completely disregarded as possibly intelligent...
I think the second part of my point covered that pretty well. The stupidity isn't in the numbers - it's putting them into a pie chart.
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Aye, what seems to have happened is that they asked "would you back Palin/Huckleberry/Romney" as three seperate questions. Obviously, most people said they'd back at least two of them.

The mistake, as Seafort points out, was putting the data together in a fucking pie chart. Something which your average secondary school student would be able to point out the problem of.. :lol:
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