Whispers from 35th Street that the morale survey is still being looked at, but has been dismissed out of hand by J-Fled and his policy group because "only" 2,500 people actually completed the survey.
Only 2,500?
We never claimed to be the smartest bloggers on the block, but we seem to recall major media doing polls and surveys that "sample" a mere 1-or-2,000 people, then extrapolate the results to claim a national trend (with a margin of error +/- 4%) in a nation of almost 300 million.. The media can (and has) built bias into their polls by oversampling certain groups (democrats, independents) and under-representing others (republicans, libertarians).
But what about a closed group, i.e. police officers from the CPD?
We went through a few textbooks left over from our college days. The morale survey had a participation rate of 25%. Running that out with a slide rule and graph paper with a plus/minus of 4% for the survey (the usual standard deviation), they only needed a sample size of 566 cops. Using 2,500 cops pushes the actual plus/minus deviation to under 2%.
Whatever the results were of that survey, they were damning to the extreme.
Someone also mentioned that the survey results were forwarded to FOP. If true, shouldn't they using these results to make some political hay over J-Fled's mismanagement and that Masters of the Universe mope screwing up this Department beyond all hope of recovery?
Only 2,500?
We never claimed to be the smartest bloggers on the block, but we seem to recall major media doing polls and surveys that "sample" a mere 1-or-2,000 people, then extrapolate the results to claim a national trend (with a margin of error +/- 4%) in a nation of almost 300 million.. The media can (and has) built bias into their polls by oversampling certain groups (democrats, independents) and under-representing others (republicans, libertarians).
But what about a closed group, i.e. police officers from the CPD?
We went through a few textbooks left over from our college days. The morale survey had a participation rate of 25%. Running that out with a slide rule and graph paper with a plus/minus of 4% for the survey (the usual standard deviation), they only needed a sample size of 566 cops. Using 2,500 cops pushes the actual plus/minus deviation to under 2%.
Whatever the results were of that survey, they were damning to the extreme.
Someone also mentioned that the survey results were forwarded to FOP. If true, shouldn't they using these results to make some political hay over J-Fled's mismanagement and that Masters of the Universe mope screwing up this Department beyond all hope of recovery?
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