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There is no such thing as a random volunteer.
by darawk 11y ago
There is no such thing as a random volunteer.
- natrius 11y agoTrue, but there are ways to mitigate that. YouGov tries to create a representative sample out of a batch of volunteers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouGov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouGov
- darawk 11y agoI was very curious as to how they would attempt to mitigate that, but your link doesn't actually provide any information about it. I think I would somewhat cautiously state that it isn't something that is possible to mitigate. There are simply two cohorts: people who are willing to take online polls and people who are not. It is inherently impossible to gather this kind of data on the latter.