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[The Other Castro]

The phrase "it takes a special kind of stupid" comes to mind.

[The Other Castro]

From /r/The_Donald:

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[The Other Castro]

Even without getting into the methodology problems, it's not possible for a group of 13 people to get 50,000 responses in less than 2 weeks. Let's assume an extremely favorable timing of 1 response every 10 minutes (factoring in time it takes to make calls, low response rate, and time to complete a response). That's 500,000 minutes, or 641 hours per person. There's only 336 total hours in 2 weeks.

[The Other Castro]

Even without getting into the methodology problems, it's not possible for a group of 13 people to get 50,000 responses in less than 2 weeks. Let's assume an extremely favorable timing of 1 response every 10 minutes (factoring in time it takes to make calls, low response rate, and time to complete a response). That's 500,000 minutes, or 641 hours per person. There's only 336 total hours in 2 weeks.

I posted this earlier to that stupid page:

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