http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp...news_nyy&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy&partnerId=rss_nyy Something to talk about
Well, if I were a Mets fan, I'd drink more too. Seriously though, any Yankees fan that has been a fan for more than 20 years knows the women skewed this survey. When I was a kid the only women in the stadium were mothers who went with the husband and kids. Today it's all eye-candy.
650 people in just the 5 boroughs. Give me a bigger sample, please. And actual baseball fans. Also... fuckin' metrosexuals.
Although it does seem to group a lot of things I don't like into one category: Yankees, Macs, Starbucks.
This is dumb. The Yankees OBVIOUSLY attract a lot of bandwagoners, so that's going to skew things a great deal. If you get 10 die-hard Mets fans and 10 die-hard Yankees fans, you'll find that they'll all be pretty damn similar. Die-hard sports fans pretty much all the same.
This is one of the most common misconceptions about polling. The only thing that the number of respondents affects is the margin of error of the poll, and they already reported that as a 3.8-percent margin of error. Increasing the sample size to about 2500, for example, would only cut the margin of error to about 2 percentage points, which wouldn't change any of the implications of the results. Indeed, many polls that you see in the paper or on TV are based on only a few hundred respondents. A much more important issue than sample size in this or any other poll is whether there are any biases in the sampling strategy. If these 650 people are actually a representative sample of the population of Mets and Yankees fans, the results should be quite reasonable.
