Wellyopolis

October 12, 2004

Gems from the Guardian

Catching up on some back issues of the Guardian Weekly that arrived while I was out of town, I learnt some interesting things.

The first is that St. Cloud is a "small rural town." I'm no parochial defender of St. Cloud, but more than 60,000 people in the muncipality, and another 100,000 in the "metropolitan statistical area" make it a city.

The second thing I learned, really more curious in its own way, was that some political "polling organisations adjust for height, race, and gender, but argue vehemently against weighting by party identification, saying that it is subject to change."

They adjust for height! In political polling! Well I never.

Posted by robe0419 at October 12, 2004 9:33 AM