Her Merkel costume needs some work.
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Thank you. Her picture was nagging at me, and I couldn't figure out exactly why.
--Patrick
"50% of people supporting a politican agree with said politician on major political topic" isn't as much of an interesting topic as "50% of people supporting a politician disagree with that politician", though.
Also, there's the "I'm not sure/don't know" crowd to take into account, so probbly closer to 40-45% on the other side.
figmentPez
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No, people can be undecided, among other possibilities. The very important unknown here is how the poll question was structured. That 50% can mean wildly different things, depending on what options were given in the poll, and how those were tabulated to get 50%.
Imagine if the question were, roughly, "Do you think Israel is committing genocide against Palestine?" Definitely not the way the question would be phrased by a professional who is good at their job, but for the sake of a quick and dirty example I'll go with it. Now imagine different ways that people are given to answer that poll:
Type A:
- Yes
- No
- Undecided
- Yes, they are committing genocide
- No, but they are committing other war crimes
- No, Israel is acting within the law
- Undecided
- Strongly Agree
- Somewhat Agree
- No Opinion
- Somewhat Disagree
- Strongly Disagree
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- ...
- 9
- 10
Type B makes for even more interesting results at 50%, if a large portion think that "genocide" is an icky word, but that war crimes are definitely going on. 50% genocide and 30% other war crimes would be a lot more damning when you think aobut how reluctant some people are to use the word genocide, especially when given other options.
Type C might be underestimating the 50% if they only include Strongly Agree and don't count Somewhat Agree.
While type D could be wildly reaching for that 50% number if they counted any answer other than zero as being belief that genocide is happening. (And there are real life examples of poll interpretations being skewed this way. If you've ever seen wild headlines that some high percentage of college age men think that rape is okay, it's because they were asked something like "How acceptable do you think it is for a man to demand sex after paying for dinner?" and any answer other than completely unacceptable was then translated into "thinks rape is okay".)
This was kind of my point behind asking how it could be any kind of relevant headline. I don't know the demographics, I don't know the sample size, I don't even know how "Biden voter" was determined. To my eye, the only people this headline is designed to clickbait are Biden-haters, and nothing beyond that.
--Patrick
--Patrick
An indepth breakdown of the demographics isn't really the job of a headline.
And if 50% of think Biden's sitting back and allowing/ supporting a genocide those are people who very well might not vote Biden come November. And remember Biden only won by 40,000 votes over a couple states which is razor thin.
figmentPez
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From The Onion:
Alabama Middle Schooler Jailed After Taking Basketball Back Out From Under Her Shirt
Alabama Middle Schooler Jailed After Taking Basketball Back Out From Under Her Shirt
I'd become a Swiftie
Ha usually does.
He may be 97, but he's still probably more qualified to talk about how our species should try to survive and live together than, let's say, some random guys aged 77 and 81. Probably smarter, keener and more in sync with real people, too.
Sometimes I think we need a sad Political Images thread. And yes, I know the XKCD thread explicitly says "sad", but I felt this belonged here more, fight me.
Alt text:"Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997)."
GasBandit
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