{"id":189305,"date":"2010-04-20T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/i-think-that-this-is-misleading\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T18:35:00","slug":"i-think-that-this-is-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/i-think-that-this-is-misleading\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think That This Is Misleading"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Gallup has a poll, which reveals a much higher level of support for regulating “Wall Street” than it does for regulating “Big Banks”.<\/p>\n

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The net goes from +3% to +14% thus “showing” that regulating Wall Street is much more popular.<\/p>\n

The thing is, the delta for “In Favor” is only +4%, and the delta for “No Opinion” is only +3%, and, “Qne can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is \u00b14 percentage points.”<\/p>\n

So, we can say that while the drop in opposition -7% is significant, but the other ones are within the margin of error, though the sample size is \u00bd that of the full survey, and I am not sure that it effects the MOE.<\/p>\n

If you want to argue that this points to a good frame to use on the argument for reform, feel free.<\/p>\n

There is a measurable improvement in the polling by using “Wall Street”, but the change in terminology is not a silver bullet to Mitch McConnell’s filibuster werewolf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, Gallup has a poll, which reveals a much higher level of support for regulating “Wall Street” than it does for regulating “Big Banks”. The net goes from +3% to +14% thus “showing” that regulating Wall Street is much more popular. The thing is, the delta for “In Favor” is only +4%, and the delta …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,1091,985,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-polls","category-regulation","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}