Re: den.list-d Digest V2001 #66

[Round12345@aol.com]

Ket:

What is the data telling us?  Only one thing: there most probably is an 
ASSIGNABLE CAUSE to the lower voter turnout.  A good / truthful headline 
would have read "Voter turnout statistically shown to be abnormally low".

What we don't know is WHY this is the case ... voter apathy is a likely 
candidate, but there are many others.  What does the disease criss-crossing 
the country have to do with the voter turnout - if anything?  What does the 
early landslide prediction for Blair have to do with the voter turnout - if 
anything?   Lots of possible causes.

Good reporting would have reported facts (turnout data) as facts, and hunches 
(voter apathy) as hunches.

Mike Round
Rational Systems