Carrying on from Jhhnn, Hillary won by a 3 million + margin. As for Shultz, it might have been a faction eager to get a woman in the oval office.
But you cannot be in denial about the Russian interference. It has now been proven that it tilted the election in those swing states, using data available from the beginning of the campaign through the end. The Russians would not have been able to do it as they did without collecting and analyzing their own statistics in addition to the available polls.
Statistics and scholars publishing in Public Opinion Quarterly had been the basis for the CIA's own dabbling in psy-war and propaganda from 1947 through 1965.
What I find often recently over the last fifteen years, is a Right-Wing more-or-less evangelical electorate who have no concept of statistical thinking. For instance, they write letters to the editor asking how a random sample of 1,000 California voters could accurately conclude that only 35% in the state supported Trump in 2016, noting that the electorate population exceeded 10 million.
They should take those kids in the Christian Day School, and teach them statistics and probability with a deck of cards, some dice and a handful of pennies.
But you can see their inner conflict on one technique for improving the education of their students. They also have a sexual obsession, complaining that the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in the local middle school or high school contained the expression "oral sex" and its definition. "We thought the dictionary only included definitions of single words!"
Bible thumpers.
Chuckleheads.
Dimwits.
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