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December 2, 2008Burt Likko 2 Comments

I found this bit of political mail that I got recently to be particularly annoying, because I fundamentally agree with the point being made, but it bothers me that the authors of the mailer feel the need to distort the… Continue Reading →

California, Domestic Politics, Lying With Statistics, Money

Socially Conservative Black Voters

November 11, 2008Burt Likko 5 Comments

In a comment a few days ago, a Reader asked if my observation about Black voters causing Prop. 8 to pass can legitimately be expanded to say that such people are actually socially conservative. The metric, it was suggested, was… Continue Reading →

2008 Election, Abortion, Blog, California, Domestic Politics, Lying With Statistics, Polls, Same-Sex Marriage

Wait For The Bigots To Grow Old And Die So They Can’t Vote Anymore

November 8, 2008Burt Likko

Okay, the title of this post is deliberately provocative. But, the third big suggestion I have for repeal of Prop. 8 is patience. No less a SSM advocate than Andrew Sullivan joins me in this counsel. And that’s because he… Continue Reading →

California, Domestic Politics, Lying With Statistics, Same-Sex Marriage

Polimetric Postmortem

November 6, 2008Burt Likko 3 Comments

I wrote a while back that I thought there was a realistic chance that Barack Obama could throw the Prop. 8 election over to the “yes” side. That post, by the way, has become the most popular post I’ve ever… Continue Reading →

2008 Election, California, Domestic Politics, Lying With Statistics, Religion, Same-Sex Marriage

Joe The Plumber

October 16, 2008Burt Likko

Lots of talk this morning about “Joe The Plumber,” an imaginary, “average” American who John McCain started speaking to in the debate last night. Obama picked up the trope and now Joe The Plumber is in every house across this… Continue Reading →

2008 Election, Barack Obama, Domestic Politics, John McCain, Lying With Statistics, Money

Only Kind Of About Sarah Palin

August 30, 2008Burt Likko

At fivethirtyeight.com,* the spot-polling report is that women are more critical of McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin than men. This is no particular surprise to me. My experience in front of juries leads me to believe that women tend to… Continue Reading →

2008 Election, Armchair Psychoanalysis, Domestic Politics, John McCain, Law, Lying With Statistics, Polls, Sarah Palin

The Middle Ages

August 17, 2008Burt Likko

This week’s poll reveals a taxonomic problem — there is nothing resembling a consensus about what the “middle age” of one’s life might be. Some warn that as I look at age 40, middle age is staring me right in… Continue Reading →

Lying With Statistics, Polls

Crticial Index

August 14, 2008Burt Likko

A few months ago, I missed Columbia University’s Andrew Gelman creation of a new, amusing, and astonishingly perceptive polimetric index: the Starbucks-Walmart Ratio. Take the number of Starbucks per capita in a state and compare that to the number of… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, Link Love, Lying With Statistics

Gay Marriage Rates From A Different Perspective

August 4, 2008Burt Likko 2 Comments

About two month ago, I mused that with available statistics, it appeared that gay couples were twenty times less likely to marry, now that they have been given the opportunity to do so. I pointed out that this did not… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, Link Love, Lying With Statistics, Same-Sex Marriage

Canadian Statistical Extrapolation — An Armchair Exercise In Demographic Assumptions

July 9, 2008Burt Likko

One of my previous posts led me down an interesting mental rabbit hole. How many gay people are there, compared to straight people? It seems to me that the answer may be smaller than I’d ever thought. Particularly because some… Continue Reading →

Canada, Lying With Statistics, Same-Sex Marriage, Sex

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