Visualizing Congress

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 9 15:11:57 PST 2002


Nathan Newman wrote:


>If half the caucus plus one are for single-payer, that means the median
>Democrat is for single-payer.

Wow, that's extreeeeeemely devious. If 51% are for and 49% are against, the one who's for is hardly representative. A median isn't a good way to represent something whose value is either 0 or 1; it is a good way to represent something where there lots of different values lying between 0 and 1.

Doug



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