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Interesting read.

Good work. 🙂
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I know this might be a strange number crunching. but can you give a "weighted average" of the percent work tax people wanted?

like a sum of the percent work tax multiplied by the percent of people who wanted it. to see what tax the average person wanted? i would like to compare it to what we have currently. and would like to have an explanation if it is different! It does appear the people who you polled would like a higher work tax than the one we have 🙂

Thank you for pointing that out. I actually already had the averages in there but went to edit the article and lost it all and didn't notice but it's back in there now

Oh boy, 11% for the mean taxes, and we are paying 18% that to me is a huge difference!

I apologize for half the article now missing. For whatever reason erepublik is stupid and whenever I try to add something and edit it, half my article disapears.

I just wrote a new article since I can't seem to get it fixed and here is the link http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/eusa-economic-policy-survey-results-2-2584493/1/20

I have been hoping someone would do this. I don't have the graphic art skills to write these.
Little did I know; people are willing to steal your identity to preserve the status-quo. This is, certainly, enlightening.

Voted; good effort.

Your survey followed very poor practices for sampling. Between the sampling bias and the 11.5% margin of error, this can't really tell us much.

Please state how it was poor sampling practices? I opened it up to everyone that is a US citizen. Where is there bias? These are your direct responses. And where did you get an 11.5% margin of error?

Your sample relied on the population of "people who read your paper." Posting about it in the eUSA forum or even party forums would have increased the unbiased sample. Alerting people whose names were used that you deemed to be false made them more likely to fill out the survey when they normally wouldn't have. You seem to suggest that by and large, this subgroup consisted of anti-tax people, skewing your data further. Need I go on?

I still don't see how it is biased. Anybody can read my article and on average you will get a good group of people representing their opinions. Posting on forums would have been more biased actually. And if there weren't people trying to manipulate the survey in the first place then there would have been no need to pm people. Even still, how could that be biased? It would still be just a random group of people who have various views. And when did I say it was anti tax people? You seem to be making a problem out of something so simple is a survey with a few questions that anyone who can read could have taken.

I also find it very ironic that you and a few others who seem to have problems with the survey are the very same people who I have high suspicion of being the ones who manipulated it in the first place. Maybe you did maybe you didn't. But if you did then don't tell me my survey is inaccurate because of the lies and manipulation tactics you used to skew the data in the first place. If you guys had really wanted to see te true results then you wouldn't have tried to spin it in your favor. The immaturity here is very sad

If you're going to accuse me of lying on your form, get some evidence first before you question my integrity on an effing browser game.

I'm a RL mathematician, a member of the American Statistical Association, and that is where my description of the flaws with your survey stems from.

You're using the results of your survey to sway public opinion and I'm calling you out on bad survey design because it's a topic I'm familiar with and apparently you are not.

You specifically alerted people, directly, to the existence of your survey, but not equally. The people you alerted via PM were not a part of your sample until you directly told them.

Again, this isn't a matter of maturity. I'm telling you that you're going to try to use science and statistics, do it right or you're going to get called out for your errors by people who know.

Also, please learn the definition of irony. That's not irony.

I'm not using the results to sway public opinion, the results ARE public opinion. I am however informing the public but mostly congress. People can take it how they want to but I have little to know opinion in the article. Also the reason I had to pm some people was to ask if they were the ones who filled it out or not. I didn't message them asking to fill it out. If I wouldn't have done that then the survey would actually be biased because it would have included those fake ones. I did what was right by informing them. It's just common sense.

The proper response to faulty responses that you did not believe would be to exclude them from your analysis, not to alert a person that wasn't in your original sample, thereby adding then to the sample and skewing the sample bias.

Or, design the survey with a method to verify identity when filling it out.

Yeah the only reason I didn't was because I was not 100% certain until after I asked them. There were a couple that were actually real that I didn't think were so it saved it from removing those. In the future I will have a system that should work better

Opened it up how? I never saw it

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hey will lie,cheat and steal to have their way. just like children they would rather destroy this country than have some one else in power. fucking sad

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