Scottish Independence (2 Viewers)

[7 - No tomorrow]

just been down to parliament for a gawk, none of my useless prick mates could be arsed going along. still worth it to experience the vibe...before the dream dies

mainly yessers, a handful of no pricks, and foreign journos striding about doing pieces to tape in german and italian and whatnot

Fair play to you.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Very cool trend map. Zoom in for local trends and zoom out for international/ postal vote

Trendsmap - Local Twitter Trends

 

[nooleen]

lot of yes goin' on there

might be cos the old tory bastards who're voting no can't work twitter though

a load of yesses coming from catalonia there!

 

[pete]

Any permanent resident of Scotland from the EU or Commonwealth can vote.

and the scottish guy i work with can't

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

and the scottish guy i work with can't

Voted with his feet, innit?

 

[pete]

Voted with his feet, innit?

this is it

the best part is he doesn't get to vote in referendumses here either

 

[ann post]

I do enjoy these

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[7 - No tomorrow]

this is it

the best part is he doesn't get to vote in referendumses here either

I can almost hear him complaining

 

[hydromancer]

Count begins in Scottish independence vote - RTÉ News

 

[dunderhead]

 

[nooleen]

i'm watching live pontificating and coverage of nothing happening yet on STV:
Watch Live | STV Player

plenty of good discussion going on if you've got nothing better to do, like going to sleep

think it's time for a strategic nap and get up when votes have started coming in

 

[Unicron]

Yougov exit poll has no at 54%, they surely can't be 5% out, doesn't seem worth staying up for out of interest.

 

[nooleen]

not an exit poll, and sampled approximately 0.07 % of about ~3.5m voters

YouGov bases its prediction on the responses of 1,828 people after they voted today, together with those of 800 people who had already voted by post.

*i don't know what kind of percentage exit polls typically cover, maybe that's standard

 

[Unicron]

not an exit poll, and sampled approximately 0.07 % of about ~3.5m voters

A sample size of approaching 2,000 tends to be pretty accurate.

If I'm working this thing right Sample Size Calculator - Confidence Level, Confidence Interval, Sample Size, Population Size, Relevant Population - Creative Research Systems

to get a +/- 5% accuracy out of a population of 3.5m you only need to poll about 700 people and if they're polling 1800 it should be accurate to a little over 3%

Edit: Misread, there's 2,600

 

[nooleen]

depends how they selected the sample then - it has to be truly random for those rules to hold

postal votes favour older voters who favour no for one thing (a bunch of lads were talking about that on STV a minute ago)

it does seem a bit no-ish at the moment though

 

[pete]

fucking democracy

 

[Unicron]

postal votes favour older voters who favour no for one thing (a bunch of lads were talking about that on STV a minute ago)

That's a good point, yeah.

Edit: And I saw someone say that Labour were feeling pretty cocky in 92, and Kerry in 04

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Sky reckon it's gonna be a No. They keep wheeling out posh Lord types.

 

[pete]

Scottish independence referendum - Live - BBC News

Mark Devenport
BBC News NI Political Editor
Northern Ireland debate

Posted at 00:34
A "Yes" victory could put Northern Ireland's constitutional status in question.
If there is a "No", there will be a debate over what extra powers, if any, should be given to Stormont. That could include devolution of corporation tax to help NI compete with the lower rate of corporation tax in the Republic of Ireland.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

And now talk of electoral fraud in Glasgow. Curiouser and curiouser.