Here's more proof that Time poll is an outlier

[lancdem]

It has Bush's approval rating at 56 percent. I just went to http://www.pollingreport.com and looked at all the polls done during and after the RNC.

None of the others have his rating higher than 52 percent, and three of the last five (Newsweek, Zogby, Fox) have it under 50 percent.

Since several of the polls have him at 52 percent, I'm pretty sure that's his ceiling, so any poll that has him at 56 percent has to be considered an outlier.

[seabeyond]

1. what is "outlier"

thanks

[rusty charly]

3. outlier:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oi=defmore&q=define:Outlier

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Outlier = Out + Lie + er ("Lie" as in "recline", not "falsehood")

--bkl

[seabeyond]

7. thnak you both of you

appreciate

had to giggle when i releazed your claification, not falsehood. where i immediately went

[are_we_united_yet]

9. Oh

I always thought it was a deviation that really couldn't be explained statistically. I.e. Time "screwed the pooch" and/or fudged the data when they did their polling.

Also if you stick the word Right (as Wing Republican) between out and lier,

Guess what you get? That what I think of the poll.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. It's done by Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas, Inc. (SRBI)

Previously posted at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=792114&mesg_id=792242

Pollsters -- Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas, Inc. (SRBI)

http://www.srbi.com/

They do the polling for Time now.

Who are these people?

http://www.srbi.com/who_we_are.html

Check 'em out.

--bkl

[lancdem]

5. I looked at that, but I don't see any red flags

Am I missing something?

[gospelized]

6. i'm looking up stuff about this company and mark shulman, their president

but so far i don't see any dirt. they seem clean.

i'll try to find donations they've made or something.

[Dogmudgeon]

8. They may not be dirty ...

... but they are new and seem to have no real reputation yet.

I wonder why Time chose them. Plausable deniability in the event of a polling fiasco?

--bkl