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HereSince1628

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22. Subsets are common in polling. The issue really isn't that everyone didn't participate

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #19)

Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:15 PM

Jun 2015

it'd be an extremely rare poll that reaches that standard.

The issue is really whether the subsample, which was self-selected, is to any degree representative of the whole.

Just as in GD polls, the respondents self-select and there is no control to be sure participants represent the larger population they are drawn from.

But, as it was published, the limits of the poll were stated so a reader who is awake and critical can and should incorporate those limites into interpretation of the poll results.

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Wisconsin Straw Poll: Clinton 49 Percent, Sanders 41 Percent - John Nichols/The Nation [View all] WillyT Jun 2015 OP

Straw polls definitely foretell the primaries and caucuses. MohRokTah Jun 2015 #1

LOL, getting nervous. I don't blame you! nt Logical Jun 2015 #5

That was fast. Octafish Jun 2015 #2

The delegates polled are people who are active and plugged in to politics and political media HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #8

Yep... Funny How John Nichols And That Conservative Rag, 'The Nation', Are Easily Dismissed... WillyT Jun 2015 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author WillyT Jun 2015 #12

And 2/3 of them expressed their opinion by not participating... brooklynite Jun 2015 #19

Subsets are common in polling. The issue really isn't that everyone didn't participate HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #22

And so the denial begins... Kalidurga Jun 2015 #3

Yep, look at the posts below..... peacebird Jun 2015 #9

Has anyone explained why 2/3s of the attendees didn't vote? nt DURHAM D Jun 2015 #4

Somebody needs to update these 500 out of 5,750,000 about who is actually running. onehandle Jun 2015 #6

Joe Walsh Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2015 #7

Well, everybody knows that The Nation is a right-wing rag on the Koch Bros payroll. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2015 #10

GMTA !!! WillyT Jun 2015 #13

Kick !!! WillyT Jun 2015 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Jun 2015 #15

Interesting Sheepshank Jun 2015 #16

You Are... Forgiven... WillyT Jun 2015 #17

You really think delegates to the WI dem convention voted for Walker? Really? HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #18

while everything you said makes sense on paper or in theory.... Sheepshank Jun 2015 #20

What's theoretical? Your comment is built around a red-herring HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #21

There was nothing theoretical about Walker and his office Sheepshank Jun 2015 #23