Archive for April, 2010

Analysis of a CBS News Poll of “Tea Party Supporters”

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Original story on CBSNews.com

Several things in this CBS write-up got me thinking, so I just want to offer my view on the whole thing.

… surveyed 1,580 adults, including 881 self-identified Tea Party supporters …
… Eighteen percent of Americans identify as Tea Party supporters. …

At first glance, those numbers do not appear to crunch; however, here is an explanation from the footer of the article:

An oversample of people who describe themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement were interviewed, for a total of 881 interviews. The results were then weighted in proportion to the adult population.

So there you go.
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Best Anti-virus Software

Monday, April 12th, 2010

While I have certainly heard lots of people complain about Norton, somehow it remains the leader in detection and removal of viruses, worms, and other malware. Strangely enough, this distinction does not extend to Norton 360, which is not as effective as Norton Internet Security — and I have no data on their standalone antivirus. So now that I’ve made that clear, here are my rankings based on a little Google research.

Best Overall:

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