Perceptions and surveys was Re: [OT] Happy New Year and E911

On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 15:55:18 -0600 Allan Goodall
<agoodall@hyperbear.com>
writes:
<snip>
>Notably absent from the list are dictatorial regimes and theocracies,
>presumably because they either don't allow their citizens to respond 
>to the
>surveys or the bureaucrats simply mimic the "party line". There is no 
>rating
>for Iraq, Iran, or North Korea, for instance. Most of the Middle East 
>is
>missing, too.
>

Talk about skewed survey results!

But isn't 'mimic the party line' the political evaluation of the
surveying group?

If you start deleting reported values because of your perception that
the
reporters are falsifying the data then you have just skewed the data
significantly.	Granted it skews it the other way if you include data
highly reasonable to be 'inaccurate' too.

Gracias,
Glenn
>From Los Angeles originally.  Where the LAPD suffers (among other
things) from individual actions (mis)representing the actual
organization
(which has it's own warts...) and it's values.

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