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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 315: Defund the Po...
LordoftheMorons 08/15/20 7:19:20 PM #196:	xp1337 posted... https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/864899178/why-is-voting-by-mail-suddenly-controversial-heres-what-you-need-to-know IIRC, the "MIT study" you're referencing turned out to be done by an MIT student or something to that effect but it nevertheless made rounds across right-wing media as "omg MIT says FRAUD" Omg you're giving me flashbacks to Ulti repeatedly claiming "Stanford PROVES the democratic primaries are rigged!" because some fucking Stanford grad student wrote a (non-peer reviewed) "paper" looking at exit poll discrepancies and claimed that there was like a one in a million chance there wasn't rigging because he didn't understand the concept that there are errors other than sampling error (and that exit polls are sure as fuck not being drawn from a uniform distribution of all voters with equal probability). --- Congrats to azuarc, GotD2 Guru champ! <cite>LordoftheMorons posted [p:943427612] in Politics C... [t:78909655]...</cite> <quote>xp1337 posted... </cite> <quote>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/864899178/why-is-voting-by-mail-suddenly-controversial-heres-what-you-need-to-know IIRC, the "MIT study" you're referencing turned out to be done by an MIT student or something to that effect but it nevertheless made rounds across right-wing media as "omg MIT says FRAUD"</quote>Omg you're giving me flashbacks to Ulti repeatedly claiming "Stanford PROVES the democratic primaries are rigged!" because some fucking Stanford grad student wrote a (non-peer reviewed) "paper" looking at exit poll discrepancies and claimed that there was like a one in a million chance there wasn't rigging because he didn't understand the concept that there are errors other than sampling error (and that exit polls are sure as fuck not being drawn from a uniform distribution of all voters with equal probability). --- Congrats to azuarc, GotD2 Guru champ!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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