Comment on Open Thread, Apr. 20 - Apr. 26, 2015

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:02:24 GMT

That's a good point, but on the other hand, even thinking that everything is a Gaussian would be a vast improvement over thinking that everything is a Dirac delta and it is therefore not ludicrous to speculate about why some politician's approval rating went down from 42.8% last week to 42.3% today when both figures come from surveys with a sample size of 1600.

Discuss