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"99% of the 88,645 people who responded to the survey said they were against the Internet filter" Perhaps the percentage is less for a random sample, only 90% m
by vorg 16y ago
"99% of the 88,645 people who responded to the survey said they were against the Internet filter"
Perhaps the percentage is less for a random sample, only 90% maybe. It doesn't help to use numbers from an obviously flawed data collection method to support the cause.
- JacobAldridge 16y agoTrue, that number of responses is unlikely to have come from a 'proper' polling company, where samples of only a few thousand are used. So it's most likely an online or activist-driven poll, which is hardly a representative or random sample. Edit: Re-read the section which noted it was an online poll for one of the larger newspapers (SMH). Hardly reliable as representative of the population.