by Mytur Benisdurty January 8, 2011
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Recent opinion polls have failed to appreciate factors within the somosphere, which could account for their poor performance in predicting the outcome of the Brexit and US Presidential Elections. Such factors include the reliability of statistics based on unqualified accounts; deliberate false accounting; trending within anonymous groups; and media interference. Clearly big-data generated by activity within the somosphere alone is not reliable and, as with grossly overestimated predictions from mixed meteorological data over the effect of global warming, pollsters must rethink the models used when assessing the habits of real people in line with online advertising.
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A selfosphere is the totality of a person's inner and outer life. It contains everything that person knows, does and dreams. It is the interaction of imagination and action.
The universe is infinite as far as we know, so it is possible for every person to be at its center without interfering with anyone else's centrality. Everyone has a selfosphere, whether or not they realize it.
The universe is infinite as far as we know, so it is possible for every person to be at its center without interfering with anyone else's centrality. Everyone has a selfosphere, whether or not they realize it.
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