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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Harper thinks he's important...
« Reply #180 on: September 03, 2019, 02:10:27 pm »
What colour is Bernier?

Purple, according to his website.
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Re: Harper thinks he's important...
« Reply #182 on: July 26, 2021, 01:31:02 am »
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/poll-stephen-harper-would-change-this-election/

Harper is important.

Total crap.

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However, since the online survey was not a random probability based sample, a margin of error cannot be calculated.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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« Reply #183 on: July 26, 2021, 05:07:55 am »
Total crap.

Good for you, no GREAT for you for catching that.  But I think that they are just doing polling the new way now.  Lots of people do this

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« Reply #184 on: July 26, 2021, 10:56:16 am »
Good for you, no GREAT for you for catching that.  But I think that they are just doing polling the new way now.  Lots of people do this

The poll is meaningless if it is unscientific.
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« Reply #185 on: July 26, 2021, 11:58:09 am »
The poll is meaningless if it is unscientific.

Not quite.  Do you follow the 538 ?  Because their methods are on a par with this, or given the landscape... worse.

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« Reply #186 on: July 26, 2021, 01:22:10 pm »
Not quite.  Do you follow the 538 ?  Because their methods are on a par with this, or given the landscape... worse.

You mean 338?   Why do you think it’s like that?

338 takes an average of statistically valid polls.  This was a single online poll with no statistical validity.
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« Reply #187 on: July 26, 2021, 02:36:46 pm »
You mean 338?   Why do you think it’s like that?

338 takes an average of statistically valid polls.  This was a single online poll with no statistical validity.

An average of statistically valid polls can't provide a standard deviation either.   So the McLeans poll seemed to take extra pains to flag that they are not "a poll" which you caught.

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« Reply #188 on: July 26, 2021, 03:46:32 pm »
An average of statistically valid polls can't provide a standard deviation either.   So the McLeans poll seemed to take extra pains to flag that they are not "a poll" which you caught.

You said they do the same thing.  They are FAR from the same thing.
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« Reply #189 on: July 26, 2021, 04:38:24 pm »
You said they do the same thing.  They are FAR from the same thing.

538 also does the factoring method described in Maclean's

They factor polls both based on quality and to account for demographics.

Both Maclean's and 538 are developing customized methods that are neither scientific nor unscientific.

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« Reply #190 on: August 11, 2021, 12:47:42 pm »
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« Reply #192 on: February 18, 2024, 06:38:37 pm »
Are you ok shady? None of those things were happening under Harper.

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« Reply #193 on: February 18, 2024, 07:48:59 pm »
It's cute how Harper think anyone still cares about him.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/stephen-harper-makes-surprise-trip-to-israel

He is paid by right-wingers to say rightwing things. 
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« Reply #194 on: February 18, 2024, 07:58:52 pm »
It's cute how Harper think anyone still cares about him.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/stephen-harper-makes-surprise-trip-to-israel

“A two-state solution will not magically take root now for the same reason it has not happened in every year since 1947 — it is rejected by way too many Palestinians. The core problem is not Israel. Yes, there are obstacles in Israel that must someday be overcome,” he wrote in the National Post on Sunday. “But Israel could have incorporated all Palestinian territory long ago, and it has not done so.”

Harper also argued that popular chants – such as “from the river to the sea” — reflect the widespread sentiment among Palestinians that “they categorically reject the right of a Jewish state to exist on any piece of the land of the former Mandate for Palestine.”

“We must stop pretending that a two-state solution can be pursued in the face of the continued propagation of such a view. Yes, we must develop a roadmap that will lead to a Palestinian state, and Israel needs to contribute to that. But Israel should not be asked to go down that path as long as such ideologies are allowed to flourish on the Palestinian side,” the former Conservative Party leader continued.
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