Republican States Are More Dependent On Government

So Conservatives hate babies? Wow, the whole world would be progressive if that were true. There might actually be a lot more progressives if they didn't support killing their unborn children however.

 

Thats not true. We love little white christian babies.

 

See at least you throw back a joke with a joke, well played.

 

Dude satire. I know conservatives don't hate babies.

 

Really? I don't need a dictionary reference, thanks.

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Let me slap the dictionary right back at you...."Statistical validity refers to whether a statistical study is able to draw conclusions that are in agreement with statistical and scientific laws. This means if a conclusion is drawn from a given data set after experimentation, it is said to be scientifically valid if the conclusion drawn from the experiment is scientific and relies on mathematical and statistical laws."

This isn't about measuring a central tendency....it implied and drew false conclusions based on limited information and little relevancy.

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An cutesy little graphic with political overtones that may or may not be the causation for their conclusions.

This is precisely WHY averages are mostly useless other than conversational or in terms of understanding the normal distribution of the Bell Curve. They are not useful when a distribution is heavily skewed at one end, with a small number of unrepresentative outliers pulling the average in their direction.

 

This is true, but this is hardly recent news and there are a dozen articles out there with supporting information from nonpartisan sources like the CBO. It's not just true, it's laughably true. I understand not wanting to believe it because that would mean all of those voters were hoodwinked into voting for people who support positions that negatively affect their constituents. That doesn't say much really for the people who elected them.

 

It all depends on what the definition of definition is. Bill Clinton would understand.

 

So military bases for example, are they for state defense or national defense?

 

Not when a specific variable within the data shows the exact opposite of what is drawn from the conclusion.

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Their conclusion was errant and outside of a number of other variables that might have been the causation.

I posted the graph specifically dealing with averages and exactly why they tell us very little and certainly nothing scientifically useful.

Disagree. If it doesn't, it's been manipulated. The curve may be flat or narrow but it's still present.

I said "mostly useless". In terms of fun consideration and general directional information, yes. In terms of anything truly useful or verifying cause/identifying variations, they don't do shit. "Averages can be misleading if considered in isolation, because the average of a highly variable distribution tells us little about specific outcomes we're likely to encounter. There's the old joke about the person who couldn't swim but confidently entered the water because it averaged only 3 feet in depth. Or, more crudely, there is little information in the truism that the average person has one breast and one testicle."