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Originally Posted by Dunbar
Something's not right in those voting breakdowns. In the gender breakdown graph, KC appears to have twice as many male votes as Pharoah, while women voters appear to be split evenly between KC and Pharoah. So KC appears to have won. Yet in the overall tally, AP has 50% more votes. That makes no sense.
Okay, I see what's wrong. The gender and age breakdowns only included about 43,000 votes for all the nominees. But there were about 589,000 votes. So those gender and age graphs only show about 7% of the votes!
Somebody got carried away making pretty graphs but forgot about having it make sense or be representative of the data.
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It's possible they pulled from the people who identified age and gender (I can't remember if I did, or had to), and not the rest who didn't. It's also possible they only analyzed a segment of the total data, but if they did, it's probably pretty representative of the total voting population.
Either way, I'll forward it on to my brother, who has a PhD in statistics and ask him what he thinks of the accuracy of the presented data. He lives for this kind of thing.
12-14-2015, 11:34 AM
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