This seems like a worse own goal than “defund the police” as a slogan, best of intentions but the execution was so bad.

I’d put heavy money on Republicans running chunks of this interview hard during the run up to the midterms.

I have a sinking fear this will be one of those tragicomic moments of earnest, well intentioned progressives inadvertently helping trump, like when many sat out the 2024 election in a misguided attempt to somehow help Palestinians.

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    Lol feel free to share a reasonable link but having done a heavy stats degree, I’ve never encountered this. I could call the former chair of statistics Canada and ask but again, pretty sure this isn’t a thing.

    It’s just so weird, when confronted with actual proof you’re going to make up statistical practices?

    The wildly charitable interpretation, maybe you are getting confused by sample size or something? It wouldn’t apply here but…

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        Response bias exists, but there’s no “oh, under 10%, we chalk that up to response bias.”

        Again, you could prove yourself correct with a sinple link. According to you, it’s just a quick search away. If you’re telling the truth, well boy, isn’t it kind of weird to keep responding instead of taking the handful of seconds to prove yourself right?

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            Again, you could prove yourself right. But right now, anyone with any smidgen of stats understanding knows you’re not telling the truth.

            According to you, you could easily prove yourself right by sharing the results of a quick search…

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              You’re clearly upset I think you just need to walk away from this and be done, I’ll go ahead and give you last word:

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                Lol, I’m not the one lying to win an internet argument.

                Again, you could easily prove yourself right by sharing the results of a quick search…

                I cannot imagine being so sad as to have to lie to win an internet argument. I hope other parts of your life are better?