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We expect some skewing, but in the emails and PMs we received the answers seem to be quite different. That is why I posted my email address so those who wished to answer in private could without the concern of being berated for apathy or not. We'll be posting the results at the end of the assignment so everyone can see our numbers.
K [email protected]12.NM.US
Not just this, but this is a sample from a chicken board. So it skews the data towards the following folks:
Middle aged married women with kids
Conservative/Republican
Internet User (and more specifically forum poster)
It really isn't a representative sample of the population at large. I agree this can be a useful exercise in statistics, but the "random" data could be generated more randomly as the statistics are important, but so is the method used to obtain them.