Stuffing the ballot box
Loading …It’s been over a decade since I last studied Statistics in college, but I still remember a few things from it (no matter how much I’d like to forget everything about that class). One thing I know, is that a sample size of 400+ people for a survey is considered “statistically relevant.”
So yesterday morning when I checked out the voting count for the video contest, I thought we had a pretty clear winner. The Nortel “Piles” commercial had a comfortable lead atop the voting, with the employee-created “sock and sandals” video a good 8-10% behind. Everyone else was far back in the pack, presumably without any chance of winning.
But as the day went on yesterday, it …
