every GULP counts

I'm a bit late in bloggin' this latest pakulo of 7-Eleven. Just in time for the upcoming elections. People (politicians and voters) are kinda hitting on the surveys and giving idiotic comments about the veracity of it. Not being included in a sample for any survey done since 19 kopong-kopong, or how can a sample of 1200 actually represent more than 90M Filipino sentiments. Well I suggest  these people enroll in a statistics class or better yet a statistics program so they can somehow comprehend the theories behind sampling and surveys.

Sorry medyo mainit lang ulo ko sa mga ganyang tao. Anyways, going back to this pakulo of 7-11, in a way they're doing a survey of everyone or anyone who's buying Gulp, or any juice/CSD for that matter. Unahan ko na tong mga lintek na taong to, this kind of survey won't actually reflect accurate results from the upcoming national elections. Why? Because of the following reasons:

• not all buyers of Gulp are registered voters (or at least 18 years old)
• a person can actually buy Gulp more than once which is not allowed in any elections (unless you're a flying voter)
• Gulp isn't accessible to everyone, meaning not everyone have the resources of actually paying for a drink and in turn getting their votes cast.
• there's clearly a bias involved in designing the cups slash ballots. only 5 presidentiables have their own cups (Aquino, Villar, Estrada, Teodoro, and Gordon ) while the rest are sharing a cup with Undecided/Abstain
• this is clearly for fun. nevertheless can actually give you some trending. but as I've mentioned above, this isn't accurate in terms of predicting results. But the results of this cool survey should be interpreted as: Among buyers of Gulp (single or multiple times, of any age and ecoclass) which have the resources to actually spend at least 20 pesos for a drink, candidate A actually leads by 5% against candidate B but in a way fall on a statistical tie with 10% margin of error. LOL

So which cup did I choose? dum dum dum...

And I checked undecided. Coz I'm still quite undecided whether to go Abstain or go yellow. LOL