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But we had such a small sub-sample of the relationships its hard to draw clear inferences.
'Oscar Curse' Explained: Why Best Actress Winners Have A Sky-High Divorce Rate Huffington Post 2011
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But we had such a small sub-sample of the relationships its hard to draw clear inferences.
'Oscar Curse' Explained: Why Best Actress Winners Have A Sky-High Divorce Rate Huffington Post 2011
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To overcome concerns about self-presentation bias, I also measure implicit attitudes via an Implicit Association Test (IAT) for a representative sub-sample.
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He bases this on photographs of stations that 'possibly' and 'likely' and 'may' have site issues, and picks out a sub-sample of time series from individual stations - but he has never quantified the results.
Tom's trick and experimental design EliRabett 2010
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This Tea Party sub-sample expressed less support for cutting spending on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (31% vs. 51% overall) or on tax breaks to the oil and gas industry for exploration (51% vs. 62% overall).
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The toplines from this survey of 2008 voters compared responses for the nationally-representative sample with a sub-sample who expressed agreement with the Tea Party movement.
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Rudy has 32%, Thompson 26%, John McCain 14%, and Mitt Romney 11% — with the margin of error being ±5.2% for the Republican sub-sample.
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Now if you weight these fractions by sub-sample sizes, the resulting number will be the fraction who support Obama in the original poll.
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For each sub-sample you can calculate a fraction which supports Obama.
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The oversampling was simply to improve the MOE among the black sub-sample (which is normally astronomical -- NEVER trust a poll that comments on what "black people think" unless they did an oversample!)
Pollster: We Did Not Over-Represent African Americans In Asking About Wright 2009
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