I've always held to a very simple principle; any poll that doesn't include my choice is automatically suspect. As I have never been polled I treat them all with equal scorn. How can a "majority" of 504 persons be accurately representative of over three hundred million diverse individuals? Yes, I know most of those don't, can't, or aren't…
I've always held to a very simple principle; any poll that doesn't include my choice is automatically suspect. As I have never been polled I treat them all with equal scorn. How can a "majority" of 504 persons be accurately representative of over three hundred million diverse individuals? Yes, I know most of those don't, can't, or aren't allowed to vote but I believe the only real polls are those that count real votes. All others are self-serving propaganda exercises, often intended to sway results in the genuine elections through discouragement.
If they listed their pool as "a statistically insignificant number of random people we got to answer their various questions about who they are and what they believe without any sort of validation or verification" I'd buy it, and not extrapolate that into 37% of "people".
And if you have been polled, as I have, you quickly realize how slanted and downright stupid many of the questions are. More confirmation bias than actual inquiry.
I've always held to a very simple principle; any poll that doesn't include my choice is automatically suspect. As I have never been polled I treat them all with equal scorn. How can a "majority" of 504 persons be accurately representative of over three hundred million diverse individuals? Yes, I know most of those don't, can't, or aren't allowed to vote but I believe the only real polls are those that count real votes. All others are self-serving propaganda exercises, often intended to sway results in the genuine elections through discouragement.
If they listed their pool as "a statistically insignificant number of random people we got to answer their various questions about who they are and what they believe without any sort of validation or verification" I'd buy it, and not extrapolate that into 37% of "people".
And if you have been polled, as I have, you quickly realize how slanted and downright stupid many of the questions are. More confirmation bias than actual inquiry.