  Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 7827 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: http://www.newscientist.com/ar ticle/dn16680-porn-in-the-usa- conservatives-are-biggest-cons umers.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref= online-news ...and we wondered what they did while not posting the talking points. | ||
Haikoont Member Username: Haikoont Post Number: 133 Registered: 09-2008 |
Why do I get the feeling a blacklight would be very telling about how the OP spends his days? | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 2191 Registered: 10-2003 |
Does this make me a closet republican? | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1758 Registered: 01-2008 |
^^^No, it doesn't make you a bible-thumping hypocrite. | ||
Iseries840 Member Username: Iseries840 Post Number: 1011 Registered: 08-2005 |
...and we wondered what they did while THEY ARE posting the talking points. | ||
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob Post Number: 1838 Registered: 10-2003 |
Gay and smoking porn doesn't count, right? | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 2010 Registered: 11-2003 |
"swagger", "war", "crazed", "desecrate" can all be typed with just the left hand | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 4533 Registered: 02-2004 |
Soft porn is popping all over the American media market and our childern are exposed to it. It would make them become sexual obsessive offended preverts in no time! | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 8604 Registered: 02-2007 |
so THAT is how the repubs are planning to rebuild their base! | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 2249 Registered: 12-2005 |
This study lacks both statistical and scientific rigor. From the article, headlined "Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers": quote: Using the same simplistic approach as this study used, one can also mistakenly conclude and write a headline saying: "Blacks in the USA: the GOP's most reliable voters". That's because if you limit your analysis to only state level data, one could justify such a headline by looking at US Census data and the election results, which show that the four states with the most blacks as a percentage of population (MS, LA, SC & GA) all gave their electoral votes to John McCain in last year's presidential election. Of course, such a conclusion is rubbish, just as is the conclusion of this report. More analysis here: Less porn, more math | ||
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23 Post Number: 4108 Registered: 11-2007 |
From the above statements - "Blacks in the USA: the GOP's most reliable voters". quote: Blacks by percentage - Ms 36.15% La 32.30% Sc 29.37% Ga 28.48% Far from the majority, in those states, Mikeg. I don't know where that argument is going. http://www.censusscope.org/us/s28/chart_race.html (Message edited by Bigb23 on March 03, 2009) | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 2250 Registered: 12-2005 |
There is no state where blacks are the majority. I was describing the four states with the highest percentages of blacks relative to the total population of the state. The point is that you'll get nowhere trying to make any kind of an argument when you draw a conclusion based on the wrong kind of data. If the Porn study had found a correlation using ZIP Code or County level data instead of state level data, it would have been a meaningful conclusion. | ||
Hooha Member Username: Hooha Post Number: 135 Registered: 06-2005 |
I think Bigb's point was that these are states where conservatives make up the majority, not a sizable minority. It's by no means statistically significant, but you've got to admit it's interesting, especially with Utah at #1. | ||
Wally Member Username: Wally Post Number: 580 Registered: 12-2003 |
quote:Not surprising, as everyone knows that Mormons used to practice polygamy a.k.a. being the pickle in a woman sandwich.  | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 2251 Registered: 12-2005 |
When the author of this study concludes that.... quote: ....then political bias is the only explanation for a headline that reads: "Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers" Believe that if you want, but I remains skeptical of any report that gets hyped by the media unless I can read the details and form my own opinion. | ||
Ccbatson Member Username: Ccbatson Post Number: 19151 Registered: 11-2006 |
The oldest profession. | ||
Classicyesfan Member Username: Classicyesfan Post Number: 591 Registered: 04-2008 |
"The oldest profession." What is? Porn? Oh yeah, those fertility carvings of earth mothers were the porn of their time. And man, those cave paintings of stick figures were viagra! | ||
Flanders_field Member Username: Flanders_field Post Number: 1766 Registered: 01-2008 |
^^^National Geographic: The gateway to porn addiction. |
