http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/dliberation/number_crunching Comments for "Creative Counting, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/dliberation/number_crunching <p> Do you have number crunching skills we can call on? Right <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/a/opendemocracy.net/ccc?key=p7-1jpa-oZS_J-2d4isuQaQ">here is a spreadsheet</a> with what demographic data is available for the Tomorrow&#39;s Europe Deliberative Poll. You can login as readers (@opendemocracy.net), password: readers . You can also download the <a href="/files/demographics.xls">Excel version</a> from here. </p> <p> Some of our questions: </p> <ul> <li>what are the entire EU proportions for these demographics?</li> <li>what is the confidence level that the organisers have used to determine confidence?</li> <li>are there any borderline cases?</li> <li>why have these demographic categories been chosen for control?</li> <li> how badly under-representative is the nationality sample?</li> <li>can we draw any inferences about the impact of nationality on belief given the sample size?</li> <li>what can we say, overal, about the degree of representativeness of the sample?</li> <li>what factors would you have controlled for if you had been designing the experiment?</li> </ul> <p> Professor Fishkin, one of the masterminds of the deliberative polling method, has set out <a href="/blog/dliberation/criteria_for_success">three criteria</a> by which to judge the success of the Tomorrow&#39;s Europe deliberative poll. The first, and arguably most important of these is &quot;Is it representative?&quot; </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/dliberation/number_crunching" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/dliberation/number_crunching">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/dliberation/number_crunching#comment dLiberation J Clive Matthews The Poll Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:53:10 +0100 J Clive Matthews 34821 at http://www.opendemocracy.net