Reply #96: sigh [View All]

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The were not "disclosed" to me, any more than they were "disclosed" to Mitofsky, or anyone else working for Edison-Mitofsky. I was HIRED.

The data DO NOT BELONG TO ME. They were not RELEASED to me. I didn't EARN the data by being a good little girl. I posted a paper on the internet saying that I thought the data should be reanalysed - AND I WAS HIRED TO DO SO.

What you want is PUBLIC RELEASE of the data for INDEPENDENT analysis. I wasn't an independent analyst. I was HIRED.

But I'm a good data analyst, and I'm an honest data analyst, and I was motivated to subject the damn data to every conceivable analysis I could in order to see whether I could find EVIDENCE THAT THE DISCREPANCIES WERE DUE TO FRAUD.

And, as I have explained on countless occasions, I found very little evidence that vote-miscounts were responsible for the discrepancy (a small apparent machine effect, whereby the discrepancy was greater in urban precincts using OLDER technology than in precincts using optical scanners or DREs, and ABSOLUTELY NO RELATIONSHIP between redshift and advantage to Bush. But you know this.


So what the heck are you saying?

That you don't believe I did it right?

That you want to run the analyses yourself?

That I am lying?

And Mitofsky used the F word to Ron after Ron had repeatedly demanded public release of data that he will NOT release because of the ethical principles laid down by HIS OWN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATION.

If Freeman or Baiman want to apply for a post as Mitofsky's statistician (it was vacant for a while) then they could see the data too. But what you and Baiman appear to want is PUBLIC RELEASE. To ANYONE.

If so, you need to make your case.

And to make that case you need to argue that somehow independent analysis of that data will tell you who won the election, and that without it no-one will know.

Well, all I can tell you is that it won't tell you. It can't. All I think it can tell you is that it is unlikely that vote-switching occurred on a massive scale. But feel free to suggest a hypothesis I haven't yet tested.

IF YOU CAN.