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Honestly, I really wish people would stop basing so many decisions on Polls. There are so many problems with accurately polling people's opinions because genera
by blackflame7000 7y ago
Honestly, I really wish people would stop basing so many decisions on Polls. There are so many problems with accurately polling people's opinions because generating a truly random dataset is really hard. Unless people have some sort of financial stake in the outcome you're only going to hear what they want to happen instead of what they think will happen.
- jobigoud 7y ago> generating a truly random dataset is really hard IMO it's not just hard but impossible for polls to be unbiased, because people that don't like answering polls are never represented. If the subset of people that don't answer polls isn't itself following the same distribution over all possible opinions as the rest of the population the results are biased, and by definition we can't test for these correlations.
- blackflame7000 7y agoThat's an excellent point. You could also add people that aren't contactable into that group.