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General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on Jan 01 07 11:15

Title: Two Headlines
Post by: TehBorken on Jan 01 07 11:15
 Two headlines right in a row on the Drudge Report...geeez, make up your mind!!

[a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061231/D8MBQIFO0.html"]Poll: Americans See Gloom, Doom...[/a]

 [a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OPTIMISM_AP_POLL?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12-30-19-22-18"]Poll: Americans Optimistic for 2007...[/a]

 
Title: Re: Two Headlines
Post by: kitten on Jan 01 07 11:25
I could see it if it had been two different poll takers, but the same one????  It just proves that with a little finessing statistics can tell you anything you want to hear.