From: Josh Rosenbluth <noway@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: Trump Sues Newspaper Over Election Interference
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:01:01 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 12/18/2024 4:15 AM, NoBody wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:30:51 -0800, Josh Rosenbluth
> <noway@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/17/2024 10:48 AM, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>
>>> Pure election interference, JUST like 2016.
>>>
>>> It was election interference, plain and simple. Falsifying polls is the same as telling people they don't need to vote, because your candidate is too
>>> far behind to win.
>>
>> This is just plain, fucking stupid. There is no way the poll was falsified.
>
> Did the poll's author ever explain what went wrong with her "poll"
> that resulted in it being completely out of line with the state's
> actual results?
It's called an outlier. It's supposed to happen a small portion of the
time. Pollsters who throw away outliers are engaging in a bad practice
called herding.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trust-a-pollster-more-when-it-publishes