Perception is reality….

How truer could a sentence be. It’s absolutely true. Obviously I follow and educate myself on every level of my new “reality”. I have been watching families crumble at how they have been treated by our elected officials for insisting on their “freedom” of choice and informed consent. It’s absolutely atrocious to witness the behaviors and words that have come flying out from our elected officials on social media. How you can say that you represent the very same people that you are destroying is beyond my comprehension. This entry was derived from a press release by An Assemblyman in NYC.

An Assemblyman by the name of Jeffery Dinowitz in NYC was a co-sponsor of the bill to end religious exemptions. I just learned that Phil Steck, who is out of Colonie , too, was co-sponsor of this hideous bill. Side note, Phil, please be expecting my call and followed visit, we need to chat.

So, in order to snow the public and yes, we have been snowed, Dinowitz called on the Siena Institute to gather the opinions of NY’ers. Obviously there always needs to be something for the public to jump on board with, so Siena conducted its poll and Dinowitz let the press run with the headlines that “ an overwhelming percentage of NY’ers support removing religious exemptions”. Dinowitz and his co-sponsors all jumped for joy publicly, even bragged about the high numbers of support, and basically acted as “told ya so, told ya so”.

WELL, WELL, WELL. Let’s have a chat about those high support numbers.

In 2012, the census showed that NY had almost 12 MILLION voters (7 years ago). The Siena poll that was conducted searching for the support of the new legislation was compromised of ONLY 700 registered voters. Ok, we know Siena doesn’t have the time or ability to reach the true majority of voters, so they take a sample size, survey and then report the results.

The disconnect here, is not that Siena is only able to capture a small voice of voters in this state. The PROBLEM is when our elected officials manipulate the data reported to sway the constituents. Let’s just break down this “overwhelming“ support number.

Siena institute reported 84% of NY Voters supported vaccinations for school and supported ending religious exemptions.

Siena poll interviewed 700 registered voters across the state.

NYS has over 12 MILLION voters.

The results of the opinions of said 700 voters only makes up 0.0000583% of the actual representation of NY STATE.

“0.0000583% of NY residents support the Dinowitz bill” doesn’t quite have the same appeal to gathering support. So, as in EVERY business, smoke and mirrors are deployed. Yes, there is some truth in what they are saying. 84% of the 700 people polled agreed (I have about 700 people in my linked in network, just for comparisons sake) However, 700 people cannot and will not ever provide a clear voice of the people of NY.

Perception is reality. We were all led to perceive that the mass majority (84%) of our fellow NY’ers were in full fledged support of this oppressive bill. When in real reality, it’s only 0.0000583% of NY voters who supported this bill, from this small poll. FYI- statistical significance is DEMANDED in science as to the relevance numbers play. I am attaching an incredible resource on “stat sig” as we like to short hand call it in Pharma. Let’s just say 0.0000583% is NOT statistically significant as the to the relativity that this represents the larger picture. I know 26000 families that would agree with me.

Read the small print. It’s there for a reason. Percentages are only relative to the sample size. The idea that this Assemblyman and his cohorts have led us all of to believe that these numbers are reality. When in actuality they are NOT.

The one thing I am confident in is that the politicians have always played the numbers. We all know this because we see it all the time. Here’s the problem. I AM SICK OF BEING PLAYED FOR A FOOL. I am sick of being lied to. NO, the mass majority of New Yorkers did NOT support this bill because the MASS majority of New Yorkers were not polled to begin with. We may not be able to change the reality happening, but we certainly still have the choice to change our perceptions.

ENOUGH.

“Do not underestimate the fire from within her, for she will burn your perception the the ground” – RH Fowler

So much love and respect.

Xo-e

https://www.surveysystem.com/signif.htm