Should We Eat Meat?

Thanksgiving arrives every year with a heated debate over how to best cook that plump and juicy turkey. But the idea of a tofu turkey (also known as a “tofurkey”) has gone from a joke a couple years ago to a reality for many. While vegetarianism has been practiced for over a thousand years in some countries, it is a relatively new concept in the West. And so, with the question cropping up more and more often, should we eat meat?

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Fair enough, I'll repeat what I wrote below.

smoke and mirrors

You still haven't given the margin of error for the results. I'll assume that means you don't know it.

- reckoner September 3, 2008 3:21PM

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- Margin of error
  
  No one seems to know much statistics here. The confidence MUST be set in advance, and determines the margin of error. To speak of one without the other is meaningless. That is, if you wish to discriminate among populations (vegans and meat lovers) with 90% confidence level, you might have a margin of error of 1, or 2, or 1.75 points. However, you can't go back to say a 1.75% gives a 90% confidence level - that's intellectually dishonest and statistically bankrupt.
  
  As Disraeli said, 'There are lies, damn lies, and statistics'.
  
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  - it's been a while
    
    it's been a while since I took statistics in college, but I don't not believe that the confidence level would change my point. Actually, if it did change it would be in my favor. If the margin of error is greater than 1.75 at 90% then the poll is meaningless. If it is greater than 1.75 at 95% then it is even more meaningless ;)
    
    Either way my asking for the margin of error holds. Btw, I find it odd that you took the time to comment with the sole purpose of saying that you know statistics better than others. You didn't add any value to our discussion of the poll at hand.
    
    - reckoner September 6, 2008 10:15AM
    
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