LA: Jindal far ahead of others, but below 50%

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

sigh, all these polls on the two blowout races, and not 1 on the closest of the 3

If there's been no polls, how do you know that the election in your state is the closest?

Because clearly, the Eaves-mentum is palapable.

Jindal need not worry he's under 50% here.  He's close enough to need only around one out of every eight or nine undecideds.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Jindal: 46%
Boasso: 10%
Georges: 9%
Campbell: 6%

Undecided: 29%

The poll of 641 registered voters was conducted Oct. 1 to Oct. 6 by the Southeastern Social Science Research Center at Southeastern in Hammond. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent.

In 2003, the university released a poll showing Jindal and then Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco were neck and neck less than a week before the runoff election. Blanco, a Democrat, won by four percentage points.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/politics/10446687.html

Honestly, how can they truly call this accurate when thats all they poll in a state of millions?  It makes no sense to me

Here's a quick primer.  It's all math—basic statistics and probability.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

As someone who currently makes a living, in part, editing math textbooks, I can assure you that the concepts of "polling" and "probability" are covered the sixth and seventh grades.

(And as someone who actually writes questions for inclusion in math textbooks, I can assure you that sixth grade kids learning math in California this year will be answering a multi-part question about Chris Shays on one of their book's "chapter tests.")

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

(And as someone who actually writes questions for inclusion in math textbooks, I can assure you that sixth grade kids learning math in California this year will be answering a multi-part question about Chris Shays on one of their book's "chapter tests.")

Political indoctrination in our schools!

Haha.  It was actually my favorite question that I got to write.  I used a poll that showed Farrell ahead, and had the students show the result as a circle graph.  Then, they had to identify what kind of sampling it was based on the description of who was polled (random).

From there, the actual results were given, and students had to graph that.  They were then asked to give a possible reason why the poll was inaccurate.

If you ask me, real world examples beat the hell out of "Seven students prefer puppies.  Nine prefer kitties.  Show in graph, plz."

I never learned about it (in school), but I went to a private school, but we still had standard Math textbooks.

It's required learning under No Child Left Behind, so a lot of this may be new.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

If you ask me, real world examples beat the hell out of "Seven students prefer puppies.  Nine prefer kitties.  Show in graph, plz."

Agreed. I have enough of their so called "Real World Examples" with trains, cookies, and NaCl solutions.

Oh, we're not allowed to use cookies, because they might set a bad nutritional example for the children.

I'm serious.  We're seriously not allowed to use cookies, or ice cream, or cake, or french fries.  Technically, we're not even supposed to use pizza to demonstrate fractions.  But there seems to be some kind of laziness exemption that always passes the censors.

The worst of it, though, is that we are not allowed to use the word "dice," "die," or imagery showing a traditional die with pips to teach probability.  Because that promotes gambling.  Even though the reason kids learn probability is because the state and federal standards demand that children learn how to "avoid unfair games of chance."

We can, however, use the term "number cube," with numbers instead of pips.  Cause kids are retards and will never make the connection between the two.

(And now, back to Bobby J.)