Tuesday, September 17, 2013

“Ground Breaking Event for Social Media”

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The near mirror image of the results represent a statistical fluke. Highly coincidental is a better way of looking at this result. This is so unless the vast majority of the social networking site participants were the actual voters in that election. Granted the rate of penetration of the internet and social media in Saint Lucia, the reliability of that methodology and medium is at best questionable. There is no real science behind it.

Anonymous said...

Ok. She is a doctoral candidate and not a fully-fledged academic doctor. But it is nevertheless awful that the self-reporting bias here is not taken into account. There is also an issue with a lack of concern for the absence of any rigour regarding any randomness in the sample.

Anonymous said...

Is this not a post-mortem? How comes it that this brilliant piece of evidence is coming after the fact? Are not predictions more valuable coming ahead of the events that they are supposed to foretell? But this one seems to be coming at us afterwards. Had the results not been so close, would we have got wind of it?