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Impeach George Bush
What Liberal Media?
So after two days of pure propaganda, we finally catch them in a contradiction.
Source: TheTip, 2003-03-21
Candidate: Big Business
According to Adam Tanner of Reuters, A Gallup Poll of 600 Americans said that 60% of Americans strongly approved of Bush's decision to go to war. According to him, that poll had a 4% margin of error.
In the same article, he reported that 10,000 or so people were engaged in an anti-war protest in Chicago (he didn't mention LA, New York, Washington, and just about every other major city). In any case, those 10,000 people are presumably as American as the 600 that the Gallup poll polled.
We can also presume that the 10,000 people in Chicago don't strongly approve of Bush's war action in Iraq.
Now assuming that the Gallup Poll with it's 4% margin of error for 600 polled people is as accurate as the 10,000 people march, that'd leave something like .00026666666... margin of error for the 10,000 Chicagoans.
Now if you add the additional
" Thousands of anti-war protesters took to the streets of cities across America"
he mentioned from San Francisco, and the rest of the cities in which people were protesting, that'd be a sample group of more than, say, 200,000 (20 major cities, Chicago had around 10,000) Americans with a margin of error of less than .00000001 %.
I hope someone will check my math, I'd really like to get that right.
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User Originated Comments:
From: Stephen
2004-04-26 22:24:23
is this what was being called "fuzzy math" about
four years ago?
From: chris
1999-11-30 00:00:00
what are you talking about? of course there are
going to be protestors, as the poll said: 40% of
the people disagree with war. i am certain that
tens of thousands don't make up more than 40% of
the nation.
From: Fenster
1999-11-30 00:00:00
...or you could look at it like
this:
chicago's population is
approximately 3 million. by your logic, that would
mean that 1 in about 300 opposed the war.
realistically, this would render your "math"
baseless.
From: More statistical significance baloney
1999-11-30 00:00:00
amazingly, the washington post and ny times poll
has achieve 3-4% margins of error. that's better
than our certainty of the truth of relativity!
wow, those guys are good!!!!
despite
the mounting body count, support for bush and his
decision to go to war remained strong, with 72
percent of respondents in the abc news/washington
post poll supporting the war versus 26 percent who
opposed it.
nearly three in four
americans polled by abc and the washington post
approved of bush's handling of the iraqi conflict,
for the first time exceeding his overall job
approval rating of 68 percent. an nbc poll put
bush's approval rating at 67 percent.
a majority polled by nbc said
they believed the united states would find
chemical and biological weapons, cited by bush as
the main reason for going into iraq, with 62
percent saying it was very likely they would find
them and only 7 percent saying it was unlikely.
the polls had a margin of error
from plus or minus 3 percent to 4.4 percentage
points.
From: LLindauer
1999-11-30 00:00:00
even little ashland, or has its protestors. i have
a light in my window to protest the abysmal war.
light a candle, not from fossil fuel.
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