{"id":6026,"date":"2012-02-10T12:18:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/10\/language-and-statistics-poll-d\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:18:44","slug":"language-and-statistics-poll-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/10\/language-and-statistics-poll-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Language and Statistics Poll: Define &#8220;Vast&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by a number of people using the phrase &#8220;vast majority&#8221; recently, I wonder where the line between &#8220;majority&#8221; and &#8220;vast majority&#8221; is. Thus, a poll:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/5930305.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/5930305\/\">What is the minimum level of support that constitutes a &#8220;vast majority&#8221;<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Assume for the sake of argument that the issue in question is a simple yes-or-no question, with only a small &#8220;no response\/ don&#8217;t know&#8221; fraction.<\/p>\n<p>If there are other classes of &#8220;majority&#8221; that you recognize, feel free to define them in the comments. The poll is just about the term &#8220;vast,&#8221; though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by a number of people using the phrase &#8220;vast majority&#8221; recently, I wonder where the line between &#8220;majority&#8221; and &#8220;vast majority&#8221; is. Thus, a poll: What is the minimum level of support that constitutes a &#8220;vast majority&#8221; Assume for the sake of argument that the issue in question is a simple yes-or-no question, with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/10\/language-and-statistics-poll-d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language and Statistics Poll: Define &#8220;Vast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,28,137,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-politics","category-polls","category-socialscience","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}