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Oooh, this garbage poll. Will just copy/paste what I found out about it months ago. >I will say that it's very odd that the polling firm apparently decided to
by calgarymicro 4y ago
Oooh, this garbage poll. Will just copy/paste what I found out about it months ago.
>I will say that it's very odd that the polling firm apparently decided to republish a story from The Epoch Times of all outlets to analyze their poll. I generally don't think of TIPP as being overly biased, but uncritically regurgitating The Epoch Times is a bit much for me.
>Edit: Never mind. Went to the home page of their site and found Fox News on steroids, wow. I guess I'll only look at the IBD/TIPP polls from now on.
>Edit 2: It was an online poll, conducted among people 'following' the story? Gee, I'm shocked.
>Edit 3: I dug up the original poll (which you can only get by subscribing to their spammy newsletter) and it looks like they polled 1335 people and threw out everyone but the 437 people who said they were following the story. Literally, after the 'how closely are you following it' question, there's no data for the other 898 people. Needless to say, the headline '79%' figure is in no way representative of the general population, and appears to consist of people who already viewed the laptop as a dealbreaker. Also, just a weird thing I noticed, the races listed in crosstabs [0] are white and Hispanic, there are no black or Asian people listed at all.
[0] https://imgur.com/a/wlI68GT https://imgur.com/a/wlI68GT