re: % of fans of your state's population?

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Of the 577 registered voters in this state who participated in the telephone survey

Population estimate in 2011 was 4,802,740

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Auburn's an engineering and ag school, so I expect you to know more about statistics. It's called sampling and there is a mathematical formula for determining representative samples, so the fact that 577/4.8 million participated doesn't, in itself, mean the stat is wrong.

True, the fact that all respondents owned phones and had active phone service no doubt skewed the entire survey in Alabama's favor.

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The article is by Scarbinsky too, so it immediately lacks credibility.

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Scarbinsky being a frick-stick tool is something all fans can agree upon.