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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (7569)	3/15/2004 10:46:49 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

I keep telling you that IBD is for Investors - not 17 year old kids. Tell me AS - how do you get the time to post all day long?

To: American Spirit who wrote (7569)	3/16/2004 7:51:29 AM
From: tonto	Respond to of 81568

Political junkie...does not make you smart. The polling has been going on for years and their new approach in 2000 was quite good. What is the IBD/TIPP MetaPoll? To assist IBD (Investor's Business Daily) readers in sorting out the many polls conducted by news and polling organizations on Election 2000, we developed the MetaPoll, a mechanism that consolidates these polls into one. The MetaPoll takes into account the sample sizes, polling populations, and accuracy records of polling organizations, and weights them accordingly. Essentially the MetaPoll is a poll of polls. Since January 2000 TIPP has been tracking and analysing major pollsters' Election 2000 poll results in an attempt to consolidate divergent findings and develop a more reliable and conclusive method of pinpointing where the country stands. Methodology: The results of polls conducted in the past 14 days by polling organizations are used as the primary input for the MetaPoll. The track record of these organizations in calling past presidential races, the sample size of the polls under consideration, the polling populations, and the timing of the polls are analyzed using our proprietary method to derive weights. For example, the MetaPoll gives more weight to polls of likely voters than registered voters, and to polls conducted during the current week rather than the past week. Polling organizations who called the last presidential elections more closely are also given receive higher weights. For the reviewer: The standard errors for the MetaPoll results are much smaller than any individual poll since it relies on a composite of multiple samples.