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March 23, 2006

Confused Americans for Truth - Shocking New Study Shows Dimes More Likely to Roll Heads

by Ferdinand T Cat

Michelle Malkin managed to get her hands on the Block Study document which shows that whiny kids grow up to be conservative. (I discussed the newspaper coverage of the study here.) The study contains this paragraph about the sample set.

The LIB/CON score distribution in this sample leans toward liberalism, with relatively few participants tilting toward conservatism. However, the crucial composite score, on which all data analyses are based, displays a wide, albeit somewhat skewed, distribution. To the extent there is skew, it follows that individuals toward the Conservative end of the score distribution can be expected to be characterologically more homogeneous than individuals toward the Liberal end.

This is a peer-reviewed paper, which means the methodology must be scientifically valid. I therefore had Bruce conduct a similar study of coin flips. He threw nine pennies and a dime up into the air and counted which were heads and which were tails. The idea was to duplicate in this experiment the kind of sampling used in the Block study. The coins were mostly pennies just as the study subjects were mostly liberals. The dime and four of the pennies came up heads and the other five pennies came up tails. This yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.33 between being a dime and rolling heads, a value comparable to the correlation coefficients produced by the Block study. Since the Block study is valid, Bruce's experiment is valid, too. Therefore, the next time you flip a coin, use a dime if you want to roll heads and a penny if you want to roll tails.

Isn't science wonderful?

Coming soon: a study showing that liberals are much more likely to watch Oscar-nominated movies than conservatives.

Scientifically submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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Just lovely. I studied their study.....and concluded 100% of studies studied that were performed by liberals were biased.

How's that for fuzzy logic!!

Nice job C-cat.


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