Thursday 6th May

[fleetfootmike]

I'm sure someone's expecting this post, so...

Vote, folks. It's your right.

(readers from countries who do not have an election today need not apply; may contain nuts; candidates measured by volume, nit weight; the value of your vote may go up as well as down (but is worthless if you don't use it).)

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Evidence? In the absense of any actual studies on it (I don't know of any) I assume that those who do poll research at least know something about their subject in assuming that those who don't reply have a similar distribution to those who do reply. 62% is a massive proportion of a population compared to the usual few thousand out of a country for statistical purposes.

Of course, having zero correlation is also unlikely, but I never said that. But in order to get a win for the LD (I don't think Labout have any chance here) the correlation would have to be pretty massive, and I see no evidence for that.

Yes, it is possible that everyone who didn't vote will all vote the same way contrary to those who did vote. It's also possible that all of the molecules in a girl's clothing will all move in the same direction at once and expose her, but lacking an Infinite Improbability Drive (and the requisite cup of hot tea[1] to power it) I doubt that either is likely.

[1] The stuff they have here is obviously out of the Sirius Cybernetics Corp. and wouldn't power anything.