So how come there’s 133% democrats in the racial column as an example. On this question in particular, did they ensure the sample included the same percentages of minorities in every category? Maybe they explain all this, but I have better things to do with my time..
> On Oct 7, 2022, at 4:45 PM, Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > > I left out an important detail, that graphic was the “too little” response. > Full article can be found in today’s Deseret News. > > From: Chuck McCown via AF <> > Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 1:00 PM > To: dmmoff...@gmail.com <> ; 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <> > Cc: Chuck McCown <> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political > > The question was as follows: > > “Do you think schools today spend too much, the right amount or too little > time teaching about the following topics:” > > I don’t consider that an ultra inflammatory question. > The source is as follows: > The American Family Survey 2022. It conducted online to a match sample on > gender, race, age and education Aug. 8-15, 2022. The sample size is 3,000 > and the overall margin of error is +- 1.9%. > > > There is an ultra liberal college up near Olympia Wa. Evergreen State > College. They actually have a faction that teaches that you cannot trust > science because it teaches concepts that are counter to postmodernism. The > extreme left has embraced a fiction that does not stand up to scientific > scrutiny. So the extreme left and the extreme right both don’t trust > science, but for different reasons. > > So an ultra liberal might also say, we reject the science of statistics and > samples and surveys because they just make up imaginary numbers... right > <wlEmoticon-winkingsmile[1].png>‘' > > In other words, if you don’t believe the results of a survey (or an election, > which really is also a survey) you just reject it out of hand, don’t believe > it, it is flawed... ??? > > From: dmmoff...@gmail.com <> > Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 11:57 AM > To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <> > Cc: 'Chuck McCown' <> > Subject: RE: [AFMUG] OT Political > > Interesting. > > I would think nearly 99% of people would think “Math” and “Science” should be > taught in school, so there must be some kind of relative ranking to come up > with those percentages. I don’t believe for a minute that only a bare > majority of any political party thinks science is important. > > I’d also guess there was some colorful to the phrasing of the survey > questions. If they asked “Should students be taught to respect people of all > races” the percentages would be high across the board. You’d have to phrase > it in some inflammatory way to get that spread. > > Anyway it’s cute, but I have questions about the methodology used to come up > with those numbers. I wonder if the methodology is “let’s make up an > imaginary number”. > > -Adam > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF > Sent: Friday, October 07, 2022 12:03 PM > To: af@af.afmug.com > Cc: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> > Subject: [AFMUG] OT Political > > Been too quiet around here. Thought I would try to ignite another brushfire. > > This graphic explains America and what is wrong with it. > Asked of all Americans what is important to be taught at school. > > <image001.png> > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > <http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com>
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