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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Les H who wrote (827)	8/8/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: 91fxrs	Respond to of 13994

Great.... Now the National Enquirer is involved. <LOL> We might even learn about some of the Prez's dieting secrets or that Hillary is his long lost sister. What a joke. Richard

To: Les H who wrote (827)	8/8/1998 7:01:00 PM
From: Rick Slemmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Les: NATIONAL ENQUIRER Editor Steve Cos has stated that Kendall was not involved in earlier Clinton scandal stories. "There is zero crossover," he has said. Note the verb tenses used: "has stated" and "has said." Note also the word "earlier." The use of these tenses indicates that the author of the article is quoting Steve Cos from previous stories and not the most recent events. If the reporter had interviewed Cos about Kendall's conflict of interest since the Lewinsky story broke, the phrasing would have been "...Kendall is not involved in Clinton scandal stories. "There is zero crossover," he said. The devil is indeed in the details. RS

To: Les H who wrote (827)	8/8/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 13994

The fact that the Democrats have turned down Republican offers of additional funding for the census indicates they would rather cook the census using sampling. That may be, but fwiw there are many statistical sampling methods where the margin of error has been proven to be statistically insignificant. There was a lot of this type of research going on at Stanford 5 years ago, in that case funded by the Nielsen company and some insurance companies (which I dont recall). The problem is, the Census model doesn't use the correct statistical model (perhaps for political reasons). The excuse they used to use was the 'productivity factor' of the sample population. For example, Nielsen omits certain groups (nursing home residents, etc) and the Census deemed that inappropriate. But how hard would it be to start with the Nielson model and add those groups back in, vs. tossing the whole model and coming up with a new formula. Sheesh talk about reinventing the wheel!