Message from @Memologist Ph.D.

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BIRdOS
2020-10-05 14:53:44 UTC  

it's bad

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 14:53:50 UTC  

Yeah, but they don’t

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 14:55:19 UTC  

If you were conducting a poll, would you want it to be inaccurate? If it turned out on Election Day that your poll was completely wrong, it would be a public embarrassment for you. Because of this, most poll companies try to be as accurate as possible.

BIRdOS
2020-10-05 14:56:23 UTC  

people also love flash stat numbers. so always take things with a grain of salt

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 14:58:40 UTC  

??

BIRdOS
2020-10-05 14:59:04 UTC  

What I mean is people love being able to say numbers

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 14:59:18 UTC  

I mean, I guess so

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 14:59:18 UTC  

But

BIRdOS
2020-10-05 14:59:21 UTC  

like the polls are useful

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 14:59:27 UTC  

Yeah

BIRdOS
2020-10-05 14:59:42 UTC  

but also remember that it's a tiny fraction of a population

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 14:59:56 UTC  

I agree, but it’s the best sample we have

BIRdOS
2020-10-05 15:00:06 UTC  

weird how many people treat them like the end all

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-05 15:00:13 UTC  

Yeah

BIRdOS
2020-10-05 15:00:46 UTC  

like when any other country than the US gets with by a tornado

BIRdOS
2020-10-05 15:01:34 UTC  

it's big news, and depend on small the country is it makes it more hit per square inch then the US

Froski
2020-10-05 15:35:06 UTC  

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.robesonian.com/opinion/columns/135745/political-polls-tend-to-be-crafted-to-achieve-desired-results/amp. There is an article discussing polling and why it is inaccurate. I didn’t have the opportunity to read it all.

Starlaur18
2020-10-05 17:08:26 UTC  

yes i agree, they're inaccurate

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-05 20:22:28 UTC  

its the people who conduct the polls

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-05 20:22:37 UTC  

and the people being polled

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-05 20:23:06 UTC  

ever notice how the "undecided" percentage is usually quite large

Erby
2020-10-05 20:57:39 UTC  

what the shit is wrong with the leftists these days?

Laser-eyed Hamilton
2020-10-05 21:01:54 UTC  

everything

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-05 21:09:18 UTC  

aint that the truth

Deleted User
2020-10-06 02:52:24 UTC  

breaking news - cnn admits to bs

Dr Badass PhD
2020-10-06 02:54:42 UTC  

Lol

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-06 03:48:46 UTC  

> ever notice how the "undecided" percentage is usually quite large
@Memologist Ph.D.

The undecided percent is usually quite small.

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-06 03:49:22 UTC  

not from what ive seen

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-06 03:49:43 UTC  

ive seen 18%

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-06 03:50:19 UTC  

largest ive seen

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-06 03:50:27 UTC  

The polls that I have seen have had undecided percents of around 2%

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-06 03:50:39 UTC  

really?

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-06 03:51:07 UTC  

anyway what i was saying is that the undecided percentage is really democrats who claim to be "undecided"

Memologist Ph.D.
2020-10-06 03:51:37 UTC  

plus with the people they poll anyway most of them are democrats

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-06 03:52:55 UTC  

Why would they do that? Like I said before, they want their polls to be as accurate as possible. They do not want to be embarrassed on Election Day.

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-06 03:53:03 UTC  

And even pollsters like Fox News

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-06 03:53:08 UTC  

Show Biden in the lead

Spooky Scary Stalin
2020-10-06 03:53:17 UTC  

And Fox News is a conservative news network