Comments | sonopan: A little statistical analysis...

sonopan

A little statistical analysis...

May 06, 2012 15:05

In watching coverage of the Republican Primary Season it struck me, as is usually does, what a weird and distorted picture the media, all media really, present. The main focus of this distortion is not a slanting of the facts, not outright lies, but selectivity on focus. Essentially, they treat it as a state by state horse race. The result of this ( Read more... )

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mztish103 May 7 2012, 03:53:11 UTC

sorry... but I'm not following the x axis... 1-43? states in what order? The middle table makes more sense, I suppose, since the states are names... but in terms of ? population? I'm sorry to be so dense... maybe I'm just too tired to understand. I'll look at it in the AM... maybe it will make more sense to me.

Good to see you on Live Journal! *smile*

Now that I'm here, I'll post. Facebook is just "too open" for my tastes.

Happy trails, compadre!

sonopan May 7 2012, 04:46:58 UTC

Pammy!

The x axis in all three charts is a listing of state primaries and caucuses in the order in which they occurred. I have no idea why the software chose to use names in one chart and numbers in the other two.

Don't be fooled that because Livejournal is less popular than Facebook that it is less open... I regularly get comments from Russian salesmen here...

open mztish103 May 7 2012, 17:33:05 UTC

ah... order in which they occurred.

I don't care about 9 billion other people... just my family. I just don't want to talk about my personal stuff with them. Not the end of the world... but facebook is like junk mail to me.

lofro May 7 2012, 05:21:33 UTC

My guess is that it has something to do with the number of candidates in the second chart.

sonopan May 7 2012, 18:49:02 UTC

In the first chart, the vertical axis is percentage of vote won, the horizontal axis is state primaries and caucuses in order of their occurrence.

In the second chart, the vertical axis is accumulated number of delegates, the horizontal axis is state primaries and caucuses in order of their occurrence.

In the third chart, the vertical axis is accumulated number of actual cast votes, the horizontal axis is state primaries and caucuses in order of their occurrence.