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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (164886)	3/22/2010 8:36:33 AM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Bill: Facts are that opinion in the medical community is OVERWHELMINGLY negative with respect to the Frankenbill that just passed the Congress..... On to the USSC!!!!! J.

To: Bill who wrote (164886)	3/22/2010 1:24:01 PM
From: Kevin Rose	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Just stop. The more you try to defend the poll, the deeper into the hole you go. You can't take a random selection of 1300 out of a (possibly non-representative) 25,000 and have the results be valid. The only thing you can draw from this poll is that 1300 respondents felt strongly enough about the issue to send the survey back. No extrapolation to the wider doctor population is possible. For all you know the 29% who said they quit could have been the entire set of doctors in the nation who felt that way; indeed, it could have been that the 71% who didn't are the only doctors who will be left now... Real polls (that is, ones with some actual science behind them) publish their complete methodology, for a reason. Even most online news polls publish a disclaimer about their polls being unscientific. From an online Fox News poll: This is not a scientific poll.