Posted by dereklane on September 27, 2019, 8:23 pm, in reply to "Re: PCR: Brexit Spiked"
I struggled to find anything in that worth commenting on, since you flippantly dismissed everything I said. Fine, but I found this:
" What you are smelling btw is what you chose to roll in. "
Fell in, yes, both literally (about on a daily basis) and figuratively (every time I look at the news).
I think the Oxford issue is the same old chestnut that Noam Chomsky shared years ago; sitting where you sit because you believe what you believe. There's a very real issue where think tanks and statistical analyses tend to conform to pre conceived goals/ideas/opinions, and it's not only backed up by Herman and chomsky's work, but by my *anecdotal* evidence in my employment (statistics). The challenge always (from my perspective) was to resist the temptation to allow the stats to lie (based on algorithms, data collection, classifications, and a host of other things). After the initial stages there was still plenty of room for manipulation based on what results were shown and how. Subtleties abound in the field, and it's amazing how many different opposing results you can glean from just one set of data.
As such, I don't place a great deal of value in statistical analysis of people whose livelihoods depend on them having a particular end result.
Science is different; it presupposes nothing.
I know what I saw post referendum, so do you. The difference is only in our opinions on what that represented. You saw a racist nation, I saw a majority sick and tired of being lied to on two fronts and who sought to minimise that damage.
I shared with you some news stories from post vote. You're free to go back and look for yourself to see if I represented bias in the mainstream liberal media. I suspect you haven't because the balance is overwhelmingly against your point of view.