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5. My statistics professor laughingly told us that he had no real faith in statistics because

Tue Dec 17, 2019, 04:46 PM

Dec 2019

"it is all about how the questions are phrased." He went on to explain how that works, and so now I look at polls with a grain of salt.

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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

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

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

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