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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 23534110 United States 10/25/2012 01:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only the most respected and on target poll. Do you not follow all the polls? Dean Chambers employs a flawed methodology and to give his "results" any credibility is to support inanity. Well, I hope you're wrong. And I think you might be. Look at their history with past elections. Either way, I'll take anything even close to their prediction. |
Anonymous Coward 10/25/2012 01:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only the most respected and on target poll. Do you not follow all the polls? Dean Chambers employs a flawed methodology and to give his "results" any credibility is to support inanity. Well, I hope you're wrong. And I think you might be. Look at their history with past elections. Either way, I'll take anything even close to their prediction. I am not mistaken as Dean Chambers, the individual who created unskewed polls, is employing a flawed methodology to arrive at his "results." You need to have some knowledge of statistics to see this and most of the general populace is statistically illiterate. As for your comment about "look[ing] at their history with past elections," a quick glance of the whois results of unskewed polls shows that the website was created on 28 August 2012. A consequence of this finding shows that the site, unskewedpolls.com, has no history. You were mistaken on that fact as well. You can verify the whois results if you are using a mac or GNU/Linux by opening the terminal and typing "whois unskewedpolls.com" Here are the results in the event that you are too lazy to do so: :~ $ whois unskewedpolls.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to [link to www.internic.net] for detailed information. Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: [link to registrar.godaddy.com] Name Server: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM Name Server: NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 15-sep-2012 Creation Date: 28-aug-2012 Expiration Date: 28-aug-2013 >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:24:46 UTC <<< NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration. 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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 23534110 United States 10/25/2012 01:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23534110 Only the most respected and on target poll. Do you not follow all the polls? Dean Chambers employs a flawed methodology and to give his "results" any credibility is to support inanity. Well, I hope you're wrong. And I think you might be. Look at their history with past elections. Either way, I'll take anything even close to their prediction. I am not mistaken as Dean Chambers, the individual who created unskewed polls, is employing both a flawed design and methodology to arrive at his "results." You need to have some knowledge of statistics to see this and most of the general populace is statistically illiterate. As for your comment about "look[ing] at their history with past elections," a quick glance of the whois results of unskewed polls shows that the website was created on 28 August 2012. A consequence of this finding shows that the site, unskewedpolls.com, has no history. You were mistaken on that fact as well. You can verify the whois results if you are using a mac or GNU/Linux by opening the terminal and typing "whois unskewedpolls.com" Here are the results in the event that you are too lazy to do so: :~ $ whois unskewedpolls.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to [link to www.internic.net] for detailed information. Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: [link to registrar.godaddy.com] Name Server: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM Name Server: NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 15-sep-2012 Creation Date: 28-aug-2012 Expiration Date: 28-aug-2013 >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:24:46 UTC <<< NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration. 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In most cases, GoDaddy.com, LLC is not the registrant of domain names listed in this database. Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC ( [link to www.godaddy.com)] Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Created on: 28-Aug-12 Expires on: 28-Aug-13 Last Updated on: 15-Sep-12 Registrant: Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States Administrative Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Technical Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Domain servers in listed order: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM They show their history right there on the site. I have knowledge in stats. A masters in fact. :-) No laziness here. Not trying to bait; no reason to be defensive or anything. Just saying it would be great if this map turns out to be even close. If you're an Obama supporter I understand you're responses. But again, just sharing the information I came across and hoping as a Romney supporter for anything near that! Peace. :-) |
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Anonymous Coward 10/25/2012 01:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Wonkish Dean Chambers employs a flawed methodology and to give his "results" any credibility is to support inanity. Well, I hope you're wrong. And I think you might be. Look at their history with past elections. Either way, I'll take anything even close to their prediction. I am not mistaken as Dean Chambers, the individual who created unskewed polls, is employing both a flawed design and methodology to arrive at his "results." You need to have some knowledge of statistics to see this and most of the general populace is statistically illiterate. As for your comment about "look[ing] at their history with past elections," a quick glance of the whois results of unskewed polls shows that the website was created on 28 August 2012. A consequence of this finding shows that the site, unskewedpolls.com, has no history. You were mistaken on that fact as well. You can verify the whois results if you are using a mac or GNU/Linux by opening the terminal and typing "whois unskewedpolls.com" Here are the results in the event that you are too lazy to do so: :~ $ whois unskewedpolls.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to [link to www.internic.net] for detailed information. Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: [link to registrar.godaddy.com] Name Server: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM Name Server: NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 15-sep-2012 Creation Date: 28-aug-2012 Expiration Date: 28-aug-2013 >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:24:46 UTC <<< NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration. 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In most cases, GoDaddy.com, LLC is not the registrant of domain names listed in this database. Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC ( [link to www.godaddy.com)] Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Created on: 28-Aug-12 Expires on: 28-Aug-13 Last Updated on: 15-Sep-12 Registrant: Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States Administrative Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Technical Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Domain servers in listed order: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM They show their history right there on the site. I have knowledge in stats. A masters in fact. :-) No laziness here. Not trying to bait; no reason to be defensive or anything. Just saying it would be great if this map turns out to be even close. If you're an Obama supporter I understand you're responses. But again, just sharing the information I came across and hoping as a Romney supporter for anything near that! Peace. :-) If you have a masters in stats, then you should be able to understand two of the main problems of his analysis: the treatment of the data from other sources and the blatant disregard for the assumptions made by other pollsters who conducted those polls. Chambers's methodology flies in the face of convention and throws rigor out the door for partisan gain. The focus should not center around one's partisan bias, it should be on the integrity, rigor, and predictive power of the tests, or in this case polls. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 23534110 United States 10/25/2012 02:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23534110 Well, I hope you're wrong. And I think you might be. Look at their history with past elections. Either way, I'll take anything even close to their prediction. I am not mistaken as Dean Chambers, the individual who created unskewed polls, is employing both a flawed design and methodology to arrive at his "results." You need to have some knowledge of statistics to see this and most of the general populace is statistically illiterate. As for your comment about "look[ing] at their history with past elections," a quick glance of the whois results of unskewed polls shows that the website was created on 28 August 2012. A consequence of this finding shows that the site, unskewedpolls.com, has no history. You were mistaken on that fact as well. You can verify the whois results if you are using a mac or GNU/Linux by opening the terminal and typing "whois unskewedpolls.com" Here are the results in the event that you are too lazy to do so: :~ $ whois unskewedpolls.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to [link to www.internic.net] for detailed information. Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: [link to registrar.godaddy.com] Name Server: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM Name Server: NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 15-sep-2012 Creation Date: 28-aug-2012 Expiration Date: 28-aug-2013 >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:24:46 UTC <<< NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration. 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This information is provided for the sole purpose of assisting you in obtaining information about domain name registration records. Any use of this data for any other purpose is expressly forbidden without the prior written permission of GoDaddy.com, LLC. By submitting an inquiry, you agree to these terms of usage and limitations of warranty. In particular, you agree not to use this data to allow, enable, or otherwise make possible, dissemination or collection of this data, in part or in its entirety, for any purpose, such as the transmission of unsolicited advertising and and solicitations of any kind, including spam. You further agree not to use this data to enable high volume, automated or robotic electronic processes designed to collect or compile this data for any purpose, including mining this data for your own personal or commercial purposes. Please note: the registrant of the domain name is specified in the "registrant" field. In most cases, GoDaddy.com, LLC is not the registrant of domain names listed in this database. Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC ( [link to www.godaddy.com)] Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Created on: 28-Aug-12 Expires on: 28-Aug-13 Last Updated on: 15-Sep-12 Registrant: Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States Administrative Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Technical Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Domain servers in listed order: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM They show their history right there on the site. I have knowledge in stats. A masters in fact. :-) No laziness here. Not trying to bait; no reason to be defensive or anything. Just saying it would be great if this map turns out to be even close. If you're an Obama supporter I understand you're responses. But again, just sharing the information I came across and hoping as a Romney supporter for anything near that! Peace. :-) If you have a masters in stats, then you should be able to understand two of the main problems of his analysis: the treatment of the data from other sources and the blatant disregard for the assumptions made by other pollsters who conducted those polls. Chambers's methodology flies in the face of convention and throws rigor out the door for partisan gain. The focus should not center around one's partisan bias, it should be on the integrity, rigor, and predictive power of the tests, or in this case polls. Well, it's like you're asking him not to unskew. If he treated the data from other sources as they see it then it would be pointless to unskew it. He disregards the assumptions made by other pollsters because they base their assumptions on partisan bias. That's the whole point. But that's where we butt heads I guess. |
Anonymous Coward 10/25/2012 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Wonkish I am not mistaken as Dean Chambers, the individual who created unskewed polls, is employing both a flawed design and methodology to arrive at his "results." You need to have some knowledge of statistics to see this and most of the general populace is statistically illiterate. As for your comment about "look[ing] at their history with past elections," a quick glance of the whois results of unskewed polls shows that the website was created on 28 August 2012. A consequence of this finding shows that the site, unskewedpolls.com, has no history. You were mistaken on that fact as well. You can verify the whois results if you are using a mac or GNU/Linux by opening the terminal and typing "whois unskewedpolls.com" Here are the results in the event that you are too lazy to do so: :~ $ whois unskewedpolls.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to [link to www.internic.net] for detailed information. Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: [link to registrar.godaddy.com] Name Server: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM Name Server: NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 15-sep-2012 Creation Date: 28-aug-2012 Expiration Date: 28-aug-2013 >>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:24:46 UTC <<< NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration. 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The compilation, repackaging, dissemination or other use of this Data is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of VeriSign. You agree not to use electronic processes that are automated and high-volume to access or query the Whois database except as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. VeriSign reserves the right to restrict your access to the Whois database in its sole discretion to ensure operational stability. VeriSign may restrict or terminate your access to the Whois database for failure to abide by these terms of use. VeriSign reserves the right to modify these terms at any time. The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and Registrars. The data contained in GoDaddy.com, LLC's WhoIs database, while believed by the company to be reliable, is provided "as is" with no guarantee or warranties regarding its accuracy. 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In most cases, GoDaddy.com, LLC is not the registrant of domain names listed in this database. Registered through: GoDaddy.com, LLC ( [link to www.godaddy.com)] Domain Name: UNSKEWEDPOLLS.COM Created on: 28-Aug-12 Expires on: 28-Aug-13 Last Updated on: 15-Sep-12 Registrant: Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States Administrative Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Technical Contact: Chambers, D. M. Ross [email protected] Q Star Productions 47 Blueberry Lane East Falmouth, Massachusetts 02536 United States (508) 566-5747 Domain servers in listed order: NS1.QSTARGROUP.COM NS2.QSTARGROUP.COM They show their history right there on the site. I have knowledge in stats. A masters in fact. :-) No laziness here. Not trying to bait; no reason to be defensive or anything. Just saying it would be great if this map turns out to be even close. If you're an Obama supporter I understand you're responses. But again, just sharing the information I came across and hoping as a Romney supporter for anything near that! Peace. :-) If you have a masters in stats, then you should be able to understand two of the main problems of his analysis: the treatment of the data from other sources and the blatant disregard for the assumptions made by other pollsters who conducted those polls. Chambers's methodology flies in the face of convention and throws rigor out the door for partisan gain. The focus should not center around one's partisan bias, it should be on the integrity, rigor, and predictive power of the tests, or in this case polls. Well, it's like you're asking him not to unskew. If he treated the data from other sources as they see it then it would be pointless to unskew it. He disregards the assumptions made by other pollsters because they base their assumptions on partisan bias. That's the whole point. But that's where we butt heads I guess. If a random sample yields higher proportions of democrats, republicans, or independents, why should the results of the poll be changed so as not to reflect the sample that was taken, but instead reflect what he believes the samples levels should be based the results of another poll that's based on a completely different set of assumptions? The answer of course lies in the concept of randomness and why we embrace randomness as means to minimize bias. If he is going to disregard the other pollsters assumptions, then he needs to disregard the entire dataset as it was constructed from those assumptions. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 23534110 United States 10/25/2012 02:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23534110 They show their history right there on the site. I have knowledge in stats. A masters in fact. :-) No laziness here. Not trying to bait; no reason to be defensive or anything. Just saying it would be great if this map turns out to be even close. If you're an Obama supporter I understand you're responses. But again, just sharing the information I came across and hoping as a Romney supporter for anything near that! Peace. :-) If you have a masters in stats, then you should be able to understand two of the main problems of his analysis: the treatment of the data from other sources and the blatant disregard for the assumptions made by other pollsters who conducted those polls. Chambers's methodology flies in the face of convention and throws rigor out the door for partisan gain. The focus should not center around one's partisan bias, it should be on the integrity, rigor, and predictive power of the tests, or in this case polls. Well, it's like you're asking him not to unskew. If he treated the data from other sources as they see it then it would be pointless to unskew it. He disregards the assumptions made by other pollsters because they base their assumptions on partisan bias. That's the whole point. But that's where we butt heads I guess. If a random sample yields higher proportions of democrats, republicans, or independents, why should the results of the poll be changed so as not to reflect the sample that was taken, but instead reflect what he believes the samples levels should be based the results of another poll that's based on a completely different set of assumptions? The answer of course lies in the concept of randomness and why we embrace randomness as means to minimize bias. If he is going to disregard the other pollsters assumptions, then he needs to disregard the entire dataset as it was constructed from those assumptions. I see what your'e getting at. But, the problem is that ALL the polls are skewed and it's an attempt to unskew them. This poll is the only one that takes in the fact that in 2010 there was an unprecedented number of republicans elected in blue states or that 2008 will never be matched as far as who turned out (and that's how the other polls are skewed). It also takes an average, unlike other polls. It takes a different assumption in that it averages them against different variables. But I don't think it disregards other assumptions all together. At then end of the day, all the polls are different and all of them use different sets of constants set against different randoms. But the reason I posted this is because THIS is the one I like the most and it's the most extreme. It was thread worthy. If RCP posted an all red map, I'd start a thread on it! :-) |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 23534110 United States 10/25/2012 02:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If I'm not mistaken, it would be the first time that a governor ever won the presidency without carrying his state. According to the map, Romney loses MA. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21211135 Lol, yeh, or you could look at it in the light of a republican governor that miraculously won MA in the first place. And balanced their budget, with money left over. For starters. It's a democratic state. That says nothing against Romney. What it says FOR Romney are the percentages, which are higher than usual towards republicans! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26237949 United States 10/25/2012 02:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If I'm not mistaken, it would be the first time that a governor ever won the presidency without carrying his state. According to the map, Romney loses MA. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21211135 Lol, yeh, or you could look at it in the light of a republican governor that miraculously won MA in the first place. And balanced their budget, with money left over. For starters. It's a democratic state. That says nothing against Romney. What it says FOR Romney are the percentages, which are higher than usual towards republicans! He left a billion dollar deficit and he was possibly their worst governor ever. |
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