 cynic04
Male, 18-29, Southern US
 87 Posts
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:27:53 AM
Love the disclaimer on the bottom... +/- 4% |
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 Linkenberger
Male, 18-29, Canada
1066 Posts
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Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:34:50 PM
Florida: We're right 46% of the time, 100% of the time. |
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 TheTrees
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
259 Posts
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Saturday, September 04, 2010 9:48:55 PM
...46%? |
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 bomb_tom
Male, 18-29, Canada
437 Posts
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Saturday, September 04, 2010 12:03:12 AM
this is typical of any news station that drowns viewers with american-flag graphics |
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 chinesemath
Female, 18-29, Western US
131 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 10:34:30 PM
the florida strikes again |
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 entwife
Female, 18-29, Western US
537 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 1:18:35 PM
thecranberry, is that always your response when you can't understand something? |
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 thecranberry
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
728 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 12:46:43 PM
...and then, suddenly, entwife started her period. |
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entwife
Female, 18-29, Western US
537 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 12:32:37 PM
*Understanding of statistcs and mathematical charts and graphs FAIL |
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entwife
Female, 18-29, Western US
537 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 12:32:04 PM
no no NO
The pie chart is still incorrect. If you do use percentages in a pie chart, they should add up to 100%. The pie chart is representing 100% of this guy's supporters, not 100% of the total voters for all candidates. So out of all the people that support this guy, x% are independents, y% are republican, and z% are democrat, which should all add up to 100%. A pie chart for all voters for all candiates would show that this one candidate got 46% of the vote, and other candidats got the other 54%.
What they probably did is take the percentages from the entire pool of voters and mashed them together in a pie chart. What the data actually said was probably that 27% of ALL independents were voting for this guy and 8% of ALL democrats, and so on.
For this to work, they should have just used numbers instead of percentages. That would probably have been a better representation of the actual data.
Understanding of statistics and mathematical charts and |
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 trippyhippy9
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
497 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 4:21:33 AM
The pie chart adds up to the 46%. The other 54% is most likely in a different pie chart, for 1 or possibly 2 other candidates.
Basically, this guy is getting 46% of the vote. |
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 sulfox
Male, 13-17, Europe
15 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 4:16:24 AM
You people know nothing.
You are getting the 'data' percentages with the pie chart percentages.
If I were to replace those percentages with numbers of people, you wouldn't have a problem. What is so different about percentages? |
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 Baalthazaq
Male, 18-29, Asia
4753 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 4:05:38 AM
Look. Go into excel.
Put in 4 numbers. (27%, 8%, 11%, 54%)
Make a pie chart out of 3 of them. It has no problem. This is intentional. This is correct. |
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Baalthazaq
Male, 18-29, Asia
4753 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 4:02:42 AM
Sigh.
A pie chart takes numbers, and makes a total, that is out of a percentage.
Those numbers can be dollars. The dollars don't need to add up to 100 to make a proper pie chart.
Those numbers can be people. The people don't need to add up to 100 to make a proper pie chart.
those numbers can be percentages. The percentages don't need to add up to 100 to make a proper pie chart.
54% of people in Florida, didn't support Chiles. Therefore they're not on the chart. This is perfectly acceptable.
Just like not all the money in the world needs to be in a pie chart about money. Not all the people in the world need to be in a pie chart about demographics.
Not all the people in Florida need to be in every pie chart about Florida. Even if they're being represented as a percentage of a larger total than the scope of the pie chart. |
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 MikeyNiv
Male, 18-29, Europe
649 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 2:41:40 AM
>I don't see any problem with this at all.
46% of Florida supports Chile.
WTF IAB?
shouldnt make up a whole pie chart though |
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 paddyt07
Male, 18-29, Europe
1064 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 12:28:04 AM
Would have been a little more sensible to have the other pie charts there so the numbers add up. |
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 Link_Hiei
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
5157 Posts
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Friday, September 03, 2010 12:08:50 AM
Uhhhh. |
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 GuardinGnome
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
2900 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:43:03 PM
I don't see any problem with this at all.
46% of Florida supports Chile.
WTF IAB? |
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 Gleeballs
Female, 18-29, Southern US
856 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:07:45 PM
it was probably just breaking down a percentage's percentage. like out of the population of florida voters, the percentage of chiles voters were either those 3 parties. |
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 TR-Wolf
Male, 18-29, Europe
1565 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:44:42 PM
@Baalthazaq : It's saying those are percentages of Chile's supporters, therefore that should still be 100% in total, as it'd be all of the supporters. |
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 aprilkayyy
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
33 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:02:52 PM
@Baalthazaq-
They're not voting on supporting Chile (as in the country). It's a poll determining which parties (and percents) are voting for Bud Chiles, who was the Independent bid for the Florida gubernatorial race. So, for everyone making fun of Florida's "indecisiveness" - it actually makes sense for Independents (as in the party) to be voting for an Independent candidate. Bud Chiles has since dropped out of the race, though. |
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Baalthazaq
Male, 18-29, Asia
4753 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:55:05 PM
So, 46% of Florida support Chile.
What exactly is the problem here? |
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 adlinbaby
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
404 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:53:40 PM
Apparently only the people that waste their times voting are idiots. |
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aprilkayyy
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
33 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:41:57 PM
@Xerasia Actually, this is Central Florida Channel 13 news. It has no affiliations with FOX... actually, it's affiliated with CNN. It runs exclusively on Bright House networks... which if I recall does not run in Tampa. You're thinking of Tampa's myfox channel 13. Different logos, different companies. |
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 betardfooser
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
562 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:39:43 PM
@ connor53: there's no *think* about it! Florida *is* retarded! This is proven fact, no debate... |
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 Septemberex
Female, 13-17, Southern US
653 Posts
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Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:39:06 PM
Poor Florida. Everyplace has their backwaters. |
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