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> Honestly, if you talk to real people within the EU, you'll find that maybe half of them are mostly against the EU. The polling seems to be proving you wrong.

by bojan 3y ago

> Honestly, if you talk to real people within the EU, you'll find that maybe half of them are mostly against the EU. The polling seems to be proving you wrong. Even in the UK the attitude towards the EU seems to be net positive.

carlosjobim 3y ago
I wrote "if you talk to people", which is different from what a poll might say. Yes, it's anecdotal.
- emptyfile 3y ago
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- piva00 3y ago
  I talk to people here in the EU, and most of my anecdotes support the EU, even the ones with reservations regarding it. So anecdotes don't matter in this discussion.
willmadden 3y ago
That is because most polling is not a representative sample of peoples' beliefs and is untrustworthy. The "mainstream" polling and coverage of Brexit is a great example, or the polling and coverage around the 2016 US presidential election.
- graemep 3y ago
  Time to mention the Yes Prime Minister clip on polling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMcZic1d4U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gMcZic1d4U
  - willmadden 3y ago
    Perfect video. Youtube is blocking it outside of the UK. VPN with UK exit IP seems to work.
TheMagicHorsey 3y ago
How’d that work out for you with the Brexit vote? Still placing your undivided faith in polls by people that benefit from presenting a particular ideology as being popular?
- bojan 3y ago
  It's a sort of a myth that Brexit polling got it wrong [1]. There was a visible surge for Leave just before the referendum, and the result did not surprise me. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Unit...