{"id":2989,"date":"2004-12-08T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T21:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/12\/berkeley-study-debunked\/"},"modified":"2004-12-08T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T21:24:47","slug":"berkeley-study-debunked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/berkeley-study-debunked\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Study Debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tYou’ve probably heard about a study done by a sociology professor and some of his minions at Berkeley proporting to show anomolies in the e-voting numbers in Florida. Careful analysis of the study’s models by people with no axe to grind show that it’s a total load of crap:<\/a><\/p>\n

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“They either overlooked or did not bother to find a much better-fitting (statistical) regression model that showed that e-voting didn’t account (for the voting anomalies),” McCullough said. <\/p>\n

Charles Stewart, an MIT political science professor, called the study “the type of exercise that you do in a graduate data-analysis class” rather than as an academic paper. <\/p>\n

“If I were to get this article as (an academic) reviewer, I would turn it around and say they were fishing to find a result,” Stewart said. “I know of no theory or no prior set of intuitions that would have led me to run the analysis they ran.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As we expected. <\/p>\n

Link from Advice Goddess.<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably heard about a study done by a sociology professor and some of his minions at Berkeley proporting to show anomolies in the e-voting numbers in Florida. Careful analysis of the study’s models by people with no axe to grind show that it’s a total load of crap: “They either overlooked or did not … Continue reading “Berkeley Study Debunked”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Md","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}