Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Hope and Wire, in reply to Emma Hart,
I meant it's even more indirect - writers writing for an audience they aren't part of about a situation they weren't part of. Not that it's impossible with a decent imagination and a wise understanding of people beyond stereotypes.
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Hard News: Hope and Wire, in reply to Emma Hart,
It felt, to me, like a postcard to Auckland from Auckland.
both the writers are from Wellington.
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I guess the challenge when you're writing about any event that has affected so many people so profoundly is trying to distill those myriad experiences into a small group of characters without resorting to stereotypes.
The actors particularly seemed to realise the importance of the project and I was impressed by all of them.
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Hard News: Decidedly Undecided, in reply to Gavin White,
Thank you. We had a discussion in an earlier thread about how to simply show error ranges in polls - here's my go at it.
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Hard News: Decidedly Undecided, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
I'm pretty much against reporting party support percentages to 1dp, because that suggests a level of precision that no poll can provide
same
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Hard News: Decidedly Undecided, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
The only reason we report <5% parties to 1dp is to show how close they might be to the 5% threshold.
Though doesn't that play into the example you guys discussed on MediaTake?
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Hard News: Decidedly Undecided, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
as you say,
Note: The data does not take into account the effects of non-voting and therefore cannot be used to predict the outcome of an election. Undecided voters, non-voters and those who refused to answer are excluded from the data on party support. The results are therefore only indicative of trends in party support, and it would be misleading to report otherwise.
My thoughts: what a shame the client is not prohibited from misleading except by their own morality and the lax accountability of their self-governed profession.
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Hard News: Decidedly Undecided, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
ah, so no neutral. thanks
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Hard News: Decidedly Undecided, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
For Party Support, percentages have been rounded up or down to whole numbers, except those less than 5%, which are reported to 1 decimal place. For all other figures percentages have been rounded up or down to whole numbers except those less than 1%, which are reported to 1 decimal place.
Interesting. I'd recommend also reporting party support rounded to one place below 5%. Especially given they are less accurate than for parties above that level.
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Hard News: Decidedly Undecided, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
ta. Hang on, that doesn't say why the only intent counted is very or quite likely, or what the other options were.
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