• mrfugu [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      13 days ago

      all national polling is so shot. Hardly anyone I know has even bothered to answer their phone for election polling (or at all given the intense volume of spam callers presently). Who tf is answering a CBS about the muskrat brigade??? They’re probably just calling the same 20 people who are glued to cable news and pushing a percent or two around to make the numbers look better.

      • Yeah honestly at this point I think phone polling is less than worthless. By using that method you are inherently selecting for a non-representative sample of the population.

        It’s not a good method for finding the opinions of “the average American” because “the average American” doesn’t answer unknown calls.

    • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      Even if it’s no rigged, national polling is increasingly inaccurate. It’s all done by phones and anyone under 45 just lets anonymous numbers go to voicemail now. The only people getting polled are lonely grannies who will gladly talk the ear off of any human who will listen.