October 15, 2013
Briefly
- Eric Crampton discusses a Gallup poll in the US which thinks >20% of the population is gay
- At NBR, Horizon polling claims to have predicted the Auckland election most accurately. At least, after they changed which one of their numbers was supposed to be the prediction. Basically, everyone got the winner right, and getting accurate results has to be pretty much luck given this is only the second election ever for mayor of the supercity.
- From The Civilian, a nice send-up of bogus polls: “Stewart Island to be renamed Harry Styles as a result of online poll”
- Census population counts for areas are now out. Auckland is bigger. ChCh is only very slightly smaller, and Canterbury is bigger.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »