maplesyrup Posted June 4, 2004 Report Posted June 4, 2004 British Columbia Company Date------LI CO ND GR OT Leger Marketing 02/06/04 29 32 28 09 01 SES CPAC 01/06/04 34 29 29 08 Ipsos-Reid 31/05/04 34 39 14 ?? EKOS 28/05/04 29 37 30 ?? Environics 26/05/04 27 34 36 ?? Can you spot it? Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
Slavik44 Posted June 4, 2004 Report Posted June 4, 2004 well the national results of ipsos reflect the national results of other polls, however the results for B.C go agianst every other poll, so unless another poll confirms this, i would say the B.C results for that poll can't be trusted, considering most polls put them atleast double 14%. Quote The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. - Ayn Rand --------- http://www.politicalcompass.org/ Economic Left/Right: 4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54 Last taken: May 23, 2007
maplesyrup Posted June 4, 2004 Author Report Posted June 4, 2004 Actually Norm Spector writes about it in his column in today's Vancouver Sun. "FISHY" I think he called it. Do you think it was rigged, or just an honest mistake? Who would have benefitted from such a huge erroneous result? Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
Slavik44 Posted June 4, 2004 Report Posted June 4, 2004 it can very easily be a mistake, especially at the regional level. In B.C say 45 peopel were found, out of 1,000 peopel nationaly. say there were 2 votes, instead of beign NDP, 1 was lib the other con. that takes away about 5% of the vote for the NDP, 12% of the vote was undecided...so 6 regional B.C votes were simply distributed by regional polling patterns. By having 2 irregular votes in favour of the cons and libs, the two parties woudl ahve recieved a greater share then they deserved,a nd the NDP would have gotten a smaller share then they deserved, making that whoel thing a double edged sword. it is easy to see from that point of view a 10% loss to the NDP, so instead of being 24% (leger says 28) they are 14%. After all 10% of the vote in B.C is 4-5 people. Another B.C example from this would be Ipsos May 7-13 cons 23 8% difference Ipsos May 11-17 cons 31 14% difference Compas May 14-19 cons 45 So it is very easy for it to be a mistake, unfortunantley I don't kow the polling size province by province, and I am assuming all polling companies are very uniform in there methods..so i coudl be wrong but it coudl easily be a mistake. Quote The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. - Ayn Rand --------- http://www.politicalcompass.org/ Economic Left/Right: 4.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54 Last taken: May 23, 2007
maplesyrup Posted June 4, 2004 Author Report Posted June 4, 2004 s44.....that makes sense, I think. Thanks. Quote An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. Anatole France
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