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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah.  So when someone disagrees with you, you accuse them of “not understanding how polling works.”  Never change, arrogant liberal![/quote]
But you [i]don’t[/i] understand how polling works. You guys literally believe that pollsters will mock you for your beliefs and you imply that they’ll tell all your friends. Plus you think they’re purposely slanting questions and trying to steer how people answer. That’s not polling. You literally don’t understand how polling works. That’s not arrogance. You’re just wrong.

Furthermore:
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Your side worked with Russia. Forgive me if I think Russia may have had a direct hand in 2016’s outcome. [/quote]
I don't think they [b]literally[/b] believe it.  They are saying that a lot of people are uncomfortable with answering pollsters now and it's messing up data.  They don't literally believe a pollster will yell at them, but they just don't trust them.  It's a feeling not a factual inference.  And not necessarily wrong.  Most people won't talk to a pollster at all. Normal behavior now is not to answer polls, so they have to call 100 people to get one participant.  That one is not necessarily representative of the 99 who didn't answer.

As for "purposely slanting" this does happen all the time in partisan polls that are released like normal polls.  And the sponsors are news orgs like CNN who they also don't trust.  How do you know their pollsters are doing it right?  You don't really, you just trust that they have a good quality control process.  But you can't verify their QC, so you don't really know.

This is part of the breakdown in social trust across society.  People don't trust the government, the media, the corporations, the other party, the police, and each other.  And they certainly they don't trust people who don't understand what they really mean and instead insult them for what they don't mean.  [/quote]

+1,000,000
THANK YOU.  Finally, a normal, intelligent person.  The deliberately obtuse are beyond exhausting, especially when they think they’re incredibly clever.  They are anything but.[/quote]

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