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marlakay

(11,451 posts)

4. I belong to yougov started taking surveys

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Dec 17, 2019, 04:31 PM

Dec 2019

Years ago when they were polling point.

Over the years they ask you many many times what you vote as, republican, Democrat or independent then a strong one or not.

They ask if you are moderate or progressive. So after answering this for 15 years they know if they give me a poll I am going to be progressive democrat.

I don’t get a lot of political ones but I love those. My point is how can they do a fair polling when they know from past polls what most people believe.

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Anybody can get any poll to say what they want to say, in my opinion. [View all] kentuck Dec 2019 OP

It is all about how you phrase the questions (re: polls) in order to skew the results. alwaysinasnit Dec 2019 #1

You gave the honest answer. Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #3

My statistics professor laughingly told us that he had no real faith in statistics because alwaysinasnit Dec 2019 #5

What you said is very true. Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #6

Did your professor mention why people never question polls they agree with? former9thward Dec 2019 #7

It's one thing to be question the accuracy of certain polls... Silent3 Dec 2019 #2

I belong to yougov started taking surveys marlakay Dec 2019 #4