Obama is like a bad trainwreck that you can't turn away from

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On a full scale 0-100 this year would be considered flat I mean it jumps around but unless you're talking full...consistent 10-20 point swings. Jostling between 40-50 is actually pretty flat.

No hate on rasmussen...that's what Gallup shows as well on a full scale. Just different people mess around with the graphs and polling numbers to try to make dramatic effects. It's stupid.
 
If you were making a chart to show seasonal temperatures in your city, would scale it from absolute zero to a million degrees K?
 
To show what about the temperatures?


You only scale the graph when you want to examine features. In this case the features are quite meaningless. The numbers jostle around between 40 and 50.

By zooming in to half the available space Rasmussen is trying to show the swing in the middle. In a realistic notion though...it's not a very convincing piece of data. The points are fairly inconsistent. The data needs to be cleaned up. But that would hurt Rasmussen's opinion of the data because you couldn't see these wild swings.

He's trying to be dramatic by showing every data point so that wild swings are more noticeable. There's a difference though as to whether those swings are actually meaningful or just random error in the sampling from day to day.

I could present this data in 3 different ways....and get wildly different opinions from people.
Watch.....
 
Elections are won or lost by a couple of percentages points in even a very clearly decided election.
 
Rasmussen polls....always dramatic. I see they've condensed the viewing space from to between 10-50% to maximize the effect.

Time to bump my thread and remind Douggie that it's gone from sky rocketing to utter collapse again.
 
Alright....

here's Rasmussen



Here's Gallup






Now here's the Total Approval for Gallup and Ras laid over each other for the past year with their 3% error included.
But I'm not going to tell you which color is which.......




That's why Rasmussen zooms the graph.
He's trying to show changes which may or may not be statistically important. Yet him and Gallup are fairly similar.

The presentation of the data makes a difference.
 
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