Thog's Science Masterclass #23

[realthog]

Thanks to Wonkette for posting a screengrab of a wonderful pi-chart prepared by Faux News to show the different levels of support enjoyed by the supposed GOP frontrunners for 2012.

Apparently 60% of Americans back Romney, 63% back Huckabee, and a stonking 70% back Palin.

Wow!

That'll be 193% of the population voting Republican in 2012, then.

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

As explained in my reply to the comment just before yours, there's apparently nothing wrong with the pollers' work; it seems rather that (a) the folx at FAUX are mathematically deficient or (b) they think (perhaps rightly) that their audience is so thick as not to notice the falsehood.

Or, I suppose, (c): both.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Yup. I'd say you'd got it right.