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I don't think polls are precise enough to be used as a measuring tool in science. If you replicate the measurements and get different results, how can that be?
by hotdogscout 3y ago
I don't think polls are precise enough to be used as a measuring tool in science.
If you replicate the measurements and get different results, how can that be? Aren't you failing to account for all other variable parameters when investigating the phenomenon?
- xcv123 3y agoParticipants were selected from a university. This is statistics. Polls have a margin of error.
- hotdogscout 3y agoWhich is a flawed use of math because margin of error expectations are based on an empirical rule based on a random variable and answers to a poll are not random. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_r...
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- xcv123 3y agoThe study may not be perfect according to your impeccable standards, but it is not entirely scientifically worthless either.