the problem yet these methods also resulted in lack of thoughtful consideration before selecting the options.
A better method involves the use of different questionnaires where different parties are numbered in a different order, the individual pollster is unaware of which questionnaire is used yet he is aware of the proportion of the different types of questionnaire, therefore by the use of probability the results can be known without the pollster knowing the individual response eliminating the shy tory problem. Secondly, the sampling method fails to take whether the people asked by the polls will actually vote into account. In the UK turnouts at elections and referendum are quite low usually roaming around 66 percent, which means that a significant number of those asked probably will not vote in the general election. For example, if you ask an American which English football team he supported, he will probably make something up, the same also applies to polling if a certain guy have no intention to vote he may name the Liberal Democrats simply because he does not have the political knowledge and hated to reveal his lack of political knowledge to the asker. It should be noted that the sampling target may be different from the one they really wanted. To conclude, careful consideration of the questioning method and sampling method is a must to conduct proper statistical research. Also it should be noted that statistical model is just a model and was never intended to reveal the whole thing. Mr Ottewill obviously noticed the problem with statistical models and adopted the game theory by predicting a conservative victory based on the game theory thus winning his money and at the same time proved the problems associated with statistical models.
Maths Puzzle 3 Can you group 8 consecutive positive integers into two groups, so that the sums of squares of four numbers in each group are equal? Prove your method.
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