Saturday, 02/08/03

I think I've previously pointed to Paul Krugman's bare-bones blog, and I mention it again to remind myself to check in more often. For example, see this perfectly wonderful entry on the heretofore unknown to me Professor Pollkatz's Pool of Polls:

I started this site in Spring 2001 after growing frustrated with the news coverage of various presidential approval polls: on Monday, Fox would say 58%, on Tuesday, Zogby would say 51%, on Wednesday, CBS would say 56%, and so on, and the reporters would report all this as actual zigzagging. The purpose of the syntheses on this site is to reduce the poll data from all the different pollsters into a form where the information can be compared and pooled. This enables us to recognize trends that would otherwise be obscured.

It's brilliant! I'm fascinated by the green diamonds in the disapproval scatterplot. 09:45PM «

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