tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1049398517640800286.post6481012192217432258..comments2023-05-19T01:41:27.989-07:00Comments on samAlochaka: Team Anna, the New Third (Rate) Secular Front?samAlochakahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14301402691481196418noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1049398517640800286.post-48600756304310287252012-08-02T08:07:27.057-07:002012-08-02T08:07:27.057-07:00Team Anna is conducting a referendum on Twitter (i...Team Anna is conducting a referendum on Twitter (internet) to seek public opinion of whether they should join politics. It is their right to join politics if they so desire. Our reservation is on the method they have employed in seeking public opinion. We would like to remind our readers that long ago there was an opinion poll conducted in USA to predict the winner in an election and how the one of the polls succeeded while the other failed (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias#Historical_examples" rel="nofollow">here</a>). We suspect that the method suffers from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias" rel="nofollow">Sampling Bias</a>. Referendum on Twitter/ Social Media need not reflect Public Opinion at Large.samAlochakahttp://samalochaka.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com