Curt Doolittle

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  • Why Were All The Polls In The 2015 Uk General Election So Different From The Results?

    THE CORRECT ANSWER
    Nate Silver is probably the world’s leading analyst of polls.  His opinion, stated yesterday, is that

    –“The World May Have A Polling Problem,” Silver asserted. “In fact, it’s become harder to find an election in which the polls did all that well.” Silver went on to cite four examples where the polls had failed to provide an accurate forecast of the election outcome: the Scottish independence referendum, the 2014 U.S. midterms, the Israeli legislative elections, and even the 2012 U.S. presidential election, where “Obama beat the final polling averages by about 3 points nationwide.”
    “[T]here are lots of reasons to worry about the state of the polling industry,” Silver concluded, citing a range of factors. “There may be more difficult times ahead for the polling industry.”—



    What he is saying is that there is conscious, and increasing bias in the polls, and that he will be able to use forensic statistics to determine who is biasing polls by how much.

    The purpose of polling whenever results are reported is to manufacture opinion.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-were-all-the-polls-in-the-2015-UK-general-election-so-different-from-the-results

  • AM ALL IN FAVOR OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES

    https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/05/06/the-case-for-violent-video-gamesI AM ALL IN FAVOR OF VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-07 05:26:00 UTC

  • THE LUSITANIA AND GERMANY’S GAMBLE —“Ten months before Lusitania, on the outbr

    THE LUSITANIA AND GERMANY’S GAMBLE

    —“Ten months before Lusitania, on the outbreak of war, the United States had immediately declared neutrality, and most Americans wanted to be neutral. There was still a lingering anti-British sentiment left over from the Revolution and a very large population of German immigrants and their descendants naturally favored their ancestral country.

    But the British were masters of propaganda, and the British campaign to portray the Germans as “Huns,” who had “raped” neutral Belgium at the start of the war, in violation of its treaty obligations, moved public opinion sharply in favor of the Allies.

    The sinking of the Lusitania moved it still further. President Woodrow Wilson managed to resist calls for a declaration of war against Germany, but American anger was so intense that Germany felt obliged to declare that it would not attack neutral ships, regardless of where they were, and would not attack passenger ships at all.

    But then, in early 1917, as the British blockade was slowly strangling Germany by causing near-starvation on the home front, Germany decided to gamble. It knew it had to win the war then or lose it from a collapse of morale at home. It reinstituted unrestricted submarine warfare. It knew this would likely bring America into the war (which it did) but it hoped that it could starve Britain into submission before the Americans could mobilize and bring overwhelming power to bear.

    The Germans lost that gamble.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-07 04:45:00 UTC

  • If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things

    If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

    —Ernest Hemingway

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-07 04:29:00 UTC

  • “Most small businesses are pass-through businesses. A pass-through business is a

    –“Most small businesses are pass-through businesses. A pass-through business is a type of business where the owner pay the tax on his or her individual income tax return. According to 2011 Census data, pass-through businesses employ 55.3 percent of the private sector work force of 119 million people. This represents approximately 65.8 million workers and business owners.

    Employment by pass-through businesses varies by state. However, pass-through businesses employ most of the private sector workforce in 48 states. In eight states, pass-through businesses account for more than 60 percent of employment. Pass-through businesses employ 67.9 percent of the private work force in Montana, 64.7 percent in South Dakota, and 64 percent in Idaho.

    Hawaii (48 percent) and Delaware (49.5 percent) are the only states where corporations employ more workers than pass-through businesses.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 17:23:00 UTC

  • SMALL VARIATIONS IN IQ MATTER —“A decrease in the average IQ of just under 5 p

    SMALL VARIATIONS IN IQ MATTER

    —“A decrease in the average IQ of just under 5 points doubles the number of retardates (IQ less than 70), and cuts in half the number of gifted (IQ over 130). Furthermore, Herrnstein and Murray found that when they moved the average IQ down statistically by just 3 points, from 100 to 97, all social problems were exacerbated: the number of women chronically dependent on welfare increased by 7%; illegitimacy increased by 8%; men interviewed in jail increased by 12%; and the number of permanent high school dropouts increased by nearly 15%.”—

    Dysgenia matters. Liberty requires ability.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-06 00:44:00 UTC

  • “Whole Foods just plays on North American’s infinite neediness to feel good abou

    —“Whole Foods just plays on North American’s infinite neediness to feel good about themselves without doing anything difficult.”— Carolynn Smith

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-05 11:58:00 UTC

  • “Given the choice between criticism and action – choose action.”–Johannes Meixn

    —“Given the choice between criticism and action – choose action.”–Johannes Meixner

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-05 10:50:00 UTC

  • does, of course, note that the first “neo-cons,” back in the 1960s, were overwhe

    http://takimag.com/article/authentic_sensibilities_kathy_shaidle/print#ixzz3ZGJqfehl—“Hartman does, of course, note that the first “neo-cons,” back in the 1960s, were overwhelmingly Jewish New York intellectuals and often ex-Trotskyites.”—

    Socialist, libertarians and neo conservatives.

    Meanwhile, rule of law requires no obscurantism or ideology or propaganda.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-05 07:25:00 UTC

  • “Conservatism since Burke has been defined (in part) by the principle that was m

    —“Conservatism since Burke has been defined (in part) by the principle that was must first understand and deal with reality as it exists before we can create the reality that we want.”—Eric Field

    Perfect. Going to use that often.

    Hence my argument that libertarianism is rationalist and justificationary, and conservatism scientific and explanatory, and socialism pseudoscientific and deceptive.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-04 08:36:00 UTC