tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post6671040249706746947..comments2024-03-24T15:07:18.773+01:00Comments on The Stuttering Brain: Where is the measurement error?Tom Weidighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02084153394215001999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-77136324059024802492008-02-11T00:52:00.000+01:002008-02-11T00:52:00.000+01:00Dave - Thanks for that link. I always get annoyed ...Dave - Thanks for that link. I always get annoyed when I read news articles saying two candidates are in a "statistical dead-heat", implying that they are tied or that the difference is trivial. The fact that a polling result is within the margin of error does not at all suggest that a race is is dead even.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12602489.post-90682568995360170372008-02-05T21:09:00.000+01:002008-02-05T21:09:00.000+01:00You might like to look at this from the Freakonomi...You might like to look at this from the Freakonomics blog:<BR/><BR/>http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/whats-the-probability-that-romney-is-leading-in-california-a-guest-post/<BR/><BR/>It's about error in political polls, but same problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com