Thursday, January 10, 2008

The polls were wrong????

No, the polls were exactly right. Obama was going to get 37% of the vote, Hilary was going to get 30% of the vote, and 30% of the voters were undecided. Polling is a time honored, time tested method of predicting the future.

Wait now predicting the future? Yes predicting the future. Statistical analysis allows for a small sample to be taken and then information extrapolated from that. One of the foundations of science is statistical analysis because it is simply physically impossible to look at every single thing in the universe.

So what happened Tuesday night? Quite simple, the people of New Hampshire spoke, they didn't know what they were going to do till the morning they went in to the polls.

The pundits decided for them.

*I find it funny that the Google ad is an anti Obama add ;)

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