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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 09:25 PM
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39. MP: Just course work toward an M.S.? There it is.
And MP is the best they can do?
OK, he has a BS in Political Science.

But what is his mathematical background?
How is he going to argue the mathematics with all of Freeman's Ph D's?

I remember that MP asked for help when I first used the Normal and Binomial distributions to calculate the probabilities.
That told me something.

And then he wrote about 99.5% confidence levels to call elections, which were totally irrelevant to the discussion of exit poll deviations.
That told me something else.

Then there was the exit poll MOE brouhaha.
First he claimed a cluster factor of 30%. He raised it to 50% or more. Now that Mitofsky said the National Exit Poll MOE was 1.0%, he doesn't broach the issue.
That told me something, also.

Now, he is getting an education from mathematical posters on his site which debunk the Reluctant Republican Responder Theory.
That told me something.

But that was BEFORE the latest Freeman paper which was peer-reviewed and supported by 10 Ph D's. An analysis of Mitofsky's own numbers showed the OPPOSITE- Republican Responders actually outnumbered the Democrats.

How is he going to spin that one?

No offense, but I believe MP is over-matched.
Everyone keeps saying he's a democrat.
As if that justifies anything he says.

MP is up against big-league pitching now.
It's as though he is batting against Sandy Koufax.
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