50 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears OP 27 Sep \ parent \ on: The Problem With Polls news
Yeah, and even with straightforward questions and luckily honest respondents, there's the whole issue of the sample of a thousand people actually being representative.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 27 Sep
Yes, we have to factor in the incentives that drive pollsters as well. If you are up against a deadline and you need a sampling of x y and z demographic but you are short some of z you may be inclined to assume some y's suddenly qualify as z's.
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