Rioting in Ferguson Area

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Re: Rioting in Ferguson Area

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I know about Pew, and thank you for proving my point.
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Meester Beeg wrote:So how is a survey meaningful? The results depend on who you ask. And you can get the result you want by targeting the audience.
There are lies, damn lies and statistics.

It tells you who they surveyed, so it's not like there's some shady deal going on. And yes, the whole point is to give a snapshot of what people think. Not sure what your big gripe about that is.
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.

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Completely disregarding surveys is no better than completely accepting them.
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I assume all you peeps are smart enough to look at the methodology for the survey and weight that in.

Guess this is what I get for assuming about random internet persons. :roll:
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