Showing posts with label political. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political. Show all posts

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Would you vote for Bush in 2004?

Take this excel quiz and find out.

What I did:
1)Used the results from CNN's 2004 election exit polls
2)Removed questions that were too similar, too era dependent (Has your situation improved in the past 4 years?), too obviously political (Are you a republican or democrat?), or, most importantly, I didn't feel like typing up.
3)Stuck them into a spreadsheet in quiz format
4)Assuming that responses to questions were independent (Very, VERY bad obviously untrue assumption), added up responses with statistics-magic to give a % likelihood that you would vote for Bush in 2004. Assuming that the questions are independent seems to make it give much more extreme results, but I imagine that they'll be somewhat close to "correct", correct being defined as who you would choose if I just straight up asked you. Try it and let me know.

Bonus points to anyone that can help me turn this into an online quiz using html/javascript/wutevs magic.


It's at
http://rokugo.endoftheinternet.org/~VARIABLE/BushCalc.xls
instead of VARIABLE, put my first name. Or IM or email me for the link.

Oh, and I'm 0.21% likely to vote for GW in 2004.