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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  2196 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 18, 2018

Fuck him. He doesn't live in the real world.

Out here in industries where we use EXTENSIVE surveying to measure everything from the efficacy of advertising, to determining entire political platforms that will dictate how the lives of 360 million Americans are going to proceed...

We know that a 4% response rate to ANY targeted survey is a HUGE win.

Four percent.

Wanna know how many responses a politician has to get to be "statistically significant" and to induce the fucker to get off his ass and create some new legislation. ONE HALF PERCENT.

There are 2.1 million people in my county.

If I can get 1000 of them to sign a petition, my legislator will JUMP exactly as high as I ask him to. That's 0.0004%.

Mr Teacher is a clueless hack.

You know why people didn't respond? They DIDN'T CARE.

You know whose responses you actually WANT, and are VALUABLE? THE ONES WHO CARE ENOUGH TO RESPOND.

He should be fired. He can't be trusted around children.





steve  ·  2186 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you for more adaquately representing the way I feel about him and about his approach to science than I could.

He and I often butt heads about stuff like this.