Empirical Data
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
6,500 Minnesota State Fair goers answered a survey. They demand:
Higher gas taxes
Higher sales taxes
More gun control
More college subsidies
More sick leave
Right-to-Die
Student privacy
They hate:
Restrooms designated by sex
Talking on cell phones
Non-partisan elections
Legislators setting their own salaries
There are 5 million Minnesotans who did NOT vote in this survey. Do you think their wishes will be considered? Or is the fix already in?
Joe Doakes
With Minnesota bureaucrats, the fix is always in.
September 8th, 2016 at 8:15 am
Geesh, you could ask those people if the gov’t should give free unicorns to everyone and they would say “yes”.
But seriously…..60% to 30% say businesses and schools (and we assume private schools) have to allow men to shower with girls. This is the kind of state that votes for f*ckups like Mark Dayton and Crazy Al Franken.
September 8th, 2016 at 9:38 am
Whoa! You mean that when you take a poll of people in the Twin Cities who can afford to take a day off for the State Fair, you get results that look really similar to what you’d expect of Democrats?
Shocker, that. It’s like teachers in the metro might be likely to spend one of their last free days there or something.
September 8th, 2016 at 11:14 am
6,500 out of 5,000,000. That is indeed a very scientifically significant sample size… for people who believe that 2,000 years (I am beign VERY generous here) out of 4,540,000,000 represent a significant indicator of AGW activity.
September 8th, 2016 at 2:52 pm
JPA, hell nowadays, a sample size of 500 out of a voting population of over 100,000,000 is considered a good indicator of who will be the next president.
Polls and pollsters roundly suck.
September 8th, 2016 at 3:07 pm
Sample selection is the problem. First how was the survey administered? Was there a booth for the legislature that one had to enter to take the survey? So if you are a citizen, who prefers to keep as much distance from the thieves in the legislature and your wallet as possible, you may never enter the booth to take the survey.
September 8th, 2016 at 6:11 pm
Actually, JPA, it’s more like 135 years out of 4.5 billion that they use as a scientifically significant example, as that was about the time thermometers came into use. “This is the hottest year ever!…” really only means since 1880.
September 9th, 2016 at 10:14 am
“It’s not who CASTS the votes, it’s who COUNTS the votes.” Anybody particularly trust our Lege to accurately report public opinion when they routinely ignore it otherwise?