As a member of the science industry and and avid Sabermetrics fan I see a lot of numbers and statistics. I can't understand why certain factions are so easy to dismiss or ignore them. Yesterday the news broke that some 90% of political contributors who lost dealerships were Republican so the blogoshpere went nuts and even some radio coverage was given to this. This was just another case of avoiding statistical study.
Director Blue
Here you can see the story bit by bit, but notice this part.
Late night updates from Joey Smith and Thomas Lamb: Large Democrat Donor groups not only remain open in all locations, but have their competition eliminated... and/or can purchase for pennies on the dollar.
Stay tuned. More data crunching is underway.
The initial "Data crunching" did not include anything other than speculation and ignorance. Sure having 90% donations going to one group looks bad, but you can't do that. Car Dealers do not match the general population as most are Male, White, middle aged and business owners. That sure looks like a RNC to me.
The hero ofcourse again is Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com who ran the numbers in a very short time and found what was really going on.
Overall, 88 percent of the contributions from car dealers went to Republican candidates and just 12 percent to Democratic candidates. By comparison, the list of dealers on Doug Ross's list (which I haven't vetted, but I assume is fine) gave 92 percent of their money to Republicans -- not really a significant difference.
There's no conspiracy here, folks -- just some bad math.
So again this is something that many will here, but the truth will never reach them and they will be ignorant of what actually is going on. Any radio or news personalities who addressed this should be made to recant their comments on this and admit they followed the story without looking at the facts.