haha, hands up you 'half-baked vox-pops'

paulsy

From:	paulsy
Subject:	haha, hands up you 'half-baked vox-pops'
Date:	Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:08:17 GMT

'The old Holmes show used to love its polls. If someone moved a chair
down in Parliament or spat on the pavement, it'd be off with a survey
of concerned folks at home: call 0900-OUTRAGE now to tell us if this
means the end of civilisation ...

At a dollar or so a call, the show must have made a small fortune over
the years on what were always entirely unscientific, and therefore
pointless, polls.

As any statistician will tell you, a self-selected sample of opinion
(especially when it's paying for the privilege) is about as useful as
a broken remote. But this never stopped Holmesy from wringing whatever
significance he could from these half-baked vox-pops. '

and more at

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=6&ObjectID=10007722