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Selection Bias much? Volunteer polling is about as un-scientific as you can get. Did it not occur to them that people who are willing to answer poll questions
by viggity 17y ago
Selection Bias much?
Volunteer polling is about as un-scientific as you can get. Did it not occur to them that people who are willing to answer poll questions about sex are probably going to have different opinions about sex than someone who isn't willing to seek out the poll?
- thomaspaine 17y agoSelection bias doesn't explain the inter-state difference, which is what the visualizations are attempting to display. For that to be an issue here, you'd have to argue that there's something about living in Nevada as opposed to New York, independent of your attitude towards sex, that would affect whether or not after seeing this question, you chose to answer or pass.
- swombat 17y agoPerhaps not, but ratios of males and females might explain most of the differences between east and west.