{"id":3044,"date":"2009-11-29T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2009-11-29T06:10:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T14:10:32","slug":"yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3044","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Damn'd Lies, Statistics, and&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=3028\">my previous entry<\/a>, I noted that, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/113980\/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx\">the Gallup report of the President's approval rating<\/a> approached 50% from above, there was an asymmetry in its perturbations, that it <em>skated<\/em> the 50% line, without blipping below it, for an extended interval.  And I noted that, as the <em>dis<\/em>approval rating approached the approval rating from below, it tentatively seemed to be displaying a complementary asymmetry, <em>plateauing<\/em> when it might be expected to rise further. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/113980\/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disapproval.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block ; border: 0 ; padding-right: 15px ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><\/a><\/p> <p>Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/113980\/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx\">that reported plateau was stretched for a full week<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/113980\/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/disappr2.gif\" width=\"215\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block ; border: 0 ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><\/a> If you'll look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/113980\/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx\">the previous reported figures for the disapproval rating<\/a>, you'll see nothing like it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In my previous entry, I noted that, as the Gallup report of the President's approval rating approached 50% from above, there was an asymmetry in its perturbations, that it skated the 50% line, without blipping below it, for an extended interval. And I noted that, as the disapproval rating approached the approval rating from below, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,4],"tags":[135,738,45,210],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-public","tag-barack-obama","tag-gallup","tag-obama","tag-polls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}