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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clickbait article for low I.Q. type readers.

There's no demonstrable way to measure anything like that. [b]Polls are meaningless. [/b]

News media (mainstream news) is one of the most toxic things in modern culture along with "social media". [/quote]

This isn’t true. I mean none of this post is true. Polling is hard and expensive, and it’s getting harder. Because of the way our mail and phone behaviors have changed, pollsters have to increasingly rely on new methods for sampling and statistical methods for trying to correct for the bias we can see in the sample we get. That’s very hard to do, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing. Polling is a fairly young field having to shift away from its foundational methods. It’s not going to be perfect.

The other big problem is that people pay the most attention to political election polling which is very hard to do and expensive, and people who pay for it and do it have a lot of motives. And the elections we care about are so close that people become irrationally angry/suspicious about relatively small polling errors.

But we still hugely rely on polling from Census and places like Pew to know…basically everything we know about Americans as a whole.

I don’t think it’s really fair to call Pew “mainstream media.” Nobody smart, even in MAGAworld, would dismiss Pew polling. Maybe MAGA would do it as performance of fealty, but not if they were actually trying to understand anything. It’s very high quality and important for understanding long term trends and changes. [/quote]

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