Re: flaws with the ron paul theory?

Started by sonylr, May 18, 2011, 08:28:50 AM

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Hollo guyes
I did a lot of research into them but didn't use them in the episode because it seems to me that, as a predictive science and measure of popular opinion, they're still in their infancy, but in my opinion the election results have vindicated them in a big way. So may be it will be workable now

Quote from: frikle on December 10, 2008, 06:24:58 AM
i wonder if anyone else has found this episode to be less skeptically-thorough compared to the other ones?

for example the interview includes a comparison of ron paul's internet popularity vs media coverage in search trends -- there are several things i find potentially wrong with such a comparison:

1. google tools appear to be normalised, massaged and there's no reason to consider them as raw data. the video was looking at the graph shapes quite specifically but from what i've found they're only really useful as a very general guide.
2. a large search volume for ron paul does not necessarily imply voter popularity since voter popularity is a positive while many of the searches could have been people wishing to find out more, or a "i've heard he has some crazy views" type of search
3. internet users are a VERY non-representative of the general US population so it's very plausible that Ron Paul's high popularity in the blogosphere was not matched by the same rise in enthusiasm in the offline world.

shane does say that this person's view is a bit conspiracy-theory but i'm not sure why he included this view at all since it seems to be a rather elaborate conspiracy about how ron paul was almost deprived of his rightful presidency by the media. and the way the guest expressed himself gives the casual viewer an impression of significant political bias in favour of ron paul.
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