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Oliver Willis: Strategic Vision, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Faked School Survey Results
Outside The Beltway | OTB: Oklahoma High Schoolers Are Very Familiar With George Washington, Thanks
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Real Oklahoma Students Ace Citizenship Exam; Strategic Vision Survey Was Likely Fabricated http://bit.ly/15yPaZ 3 days ago |
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If there really are doubts about PPP poll, I hope Nate Silver tackles it. Here he dissects another fishy poll: http://bit.ly/hiOvI 7 days ago |
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@EdMorrissey will no doubt add this to the list of polling scandals he is compiling. http://tinyurl.com/ycavsx2 10 days ago |
Strategic Vision, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Faked School Survey Results
Oliver Willis —
As one of the people who pushed this story, I owe it to you to note just how shoddy the data was.
There is no reason to think, in other words, that the students in House District 15 should have gotten such profoundly superior results to the “students” in Strategic Vision’s survey. Nor could Strategic Vision’s results have been the result of any sort of mathematical or methodological oddity. Consider their claim that literally none of the 1,000 students they surveyed were able to answer more than 7 of the 10 questions correctly ...
Oklahoma High Schoolers Are Very Familiar With George Washington, Thanks
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... of this result, a skepticism shared by most of the commenters. Well, as it turns out, this skepticism was quite justified, as Nate Silver points out: ...
Monday Open Thread
Delaware Liberal —
... has been all over the story of Strategic Vision pollsters, a Republican polling firm. They published a poll showing that students in Oklahoma did very poorly on the American citizenship test and the story was widely picked up by the media. I’ll let Nate tell the tale: In detailing some of the evidence against Strategic Vision LLC, a pollster I am now almost certain is disreputable and fraudulent, I pointed in particular to a poll that they conducted on behalf of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, an conservative-leaning educational thinktank. The poll purported to show ...
As It Turns Out, Oklahoma High School Students Aren’t That Dumb After All
Below The Beltway —
Back in September, I wrote about what seemed like a rather depressing survey contending that, among other things, only 11% of surveyed Oklahoma high school students knew who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Well, it turns out that may not have been all that accurate:
Oklahoma State Representative Ed] Cannaday therefore had little difficulty setting up an experiment: he arranged to have all the seniors in the 10 secondary schools in his district take the Strategic Vision/OCPA survey. Cannaday tried to replicate the ...
OK students do OK on civics re-test
Joanne Jacobs —
... taken from the citizenship exam passed on the first try by 92 percent of immigrants applying for naturalization. We’re talking about a test that asks: Who is George Washington? An Oklahoma legislator repeated the Strategic Vision survey with high school seniors in his district, reports FiveThirtyEight. They aced the exam. They answered an average of 7.8 out of the 10 questions correctly. By comparison, the high school students that were purportedly surveyed by Strategic Vision had gotten just 2.8 out of the items correct. 98 percent of the students on Cannaday’s survey — not ...
Nate Silver pretends to forget how polling works
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... , the top-flight baseball analyst turned bottom-feeding partisan shill (appropriate for a guy who started out in politics as a Daily Kos diarist) was launching a crusade against Strategic Vision so lacking in integrity or even basic mathematical sense that it left many of us wondering whose payroll he’s on. The sad part is, though, that his analysis is so bad, it would honestly surprise me if anyone were actually paying for this. Take this attempted broadside from Sunday . It’s full of so much bad math and so little critical thinking that I lack the time tonight to address it ...
Link roundup for 14 November 2009
Infidel753 —
... must be put to death for her abandonment of the Islamic faith." Wrong. It is an objective fact that Islamic law dictates this, whether or not she personally has been threatened yet. Unregulated capitalism has little support in most major countries. Majorities almost everywhere take the middle-of-the-road view that capitalism is not "fatally flawed" but needs "regulation and reform". A survey showing that Oklahoma high-schoolers are woefully ignorant was faked (found via Oliver Willis). The latest source of America-is-in-decline ...
Fooled Gold? Another look at the G.I. Civics Test
Blog For Arizona —
... In one of his many posts on Strategic Vision (I list all I could find at the end of the post), Silver looks at a survey Strategic Vision conducted in Oklahoma which asked the same 10 civics questions G.I. asked students in Arizona. It got equally dismal results, indicating that Oklahoma students, like those in Arizona, know very little about civics. Ladner was involved in setting up the Oklahoma survey and ...
