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After all they used a headline that was nothing more than supposition, and left enough room for already preconceived BIAS to fill in the blanks.
originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
originally posted by: Greggers
originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
Again, no! You cannot accurately predict the outcome of an emotionally charged event with such a small sample size.
What outcome are you talking about?
You have the right to think what you want, that's the beauty of America!
And you have the right to have no grasp of statistics whatsoever.
Ok, mister math police.
If you ask 1500 people their opinion and use that info to predict what the other 146 million peoples opinion is, that result is the outcome. It's that simple.
A poll is done to produce an outcome. Everything in life is done to produce an outcome for pity sake. This outcome happens to suggest that more than half of voters want Trump's taxes released based on the opinions of 1500 people. Why is this so hard for you to understand, and why are you being so anal about statistics? Real life experience with polls related to emotional issues are always skewed. I'll once again for the last time ask that you refer to the polls that were conducted before the Presidential primaries. Pretty much all of them said Trump would never make it, high numbers predicted the outcome and they were wrong.
Any poll is a prediction of an outcome. And if you keep thinking that a poll has no outcome, and that using probability is not predicting an outcome then I don't know what to say.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Wardaddy454
Operating losses are reported separately from salaries and wages. You didn't actually read the OP, did you?
He had a billion dollars worth of losses,
Actually the letter from his attorney says:
especially considering he is audited annually,
Your personal tax returns have been under continuous examination by the Internal Revenue Service since 2002
This return is from 1995 and did you notice that the word "audit" is not mentioned? Those tricky attorneys.
assets.donaldjtrump.com...
Chapter 4 of the "IRS Manual," "Examining Process," includes processes for examining tax returns to select which ones should be audited. It also includes guidelines for auditors when examining information during an actual audit.
The term "tax audit" more closely defines a specific process: checking an actual tax return for accuracy and credibility while asking the filer specific questions. If the examination of a return reveals unusual or suspicious entries or claims, the filer is called into IRS offices to clarify the situation. In such cases, the IRS may concentrate on specific aspects of the return, or audit the return in its entirety. Although the filer may consider this an examination, its technical definition is a tax audit.