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Originally posted by Ronson View Post
Polls remind me of that game show Family Feud, where they "polled a previous studio audience" to get their results. That one select group of people, who had the personalities to want to go to a game show, gave their answers. Does that represent the general population? I don't think so.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostWe've seen this with the QAnon phenomena. A significant proportion of the Republican base chose to believe every conspiracy theory that existed combined, and reject all rationality, facts, media etc."My favorite color in the alphabet is three." - Donald J. Trump
"The 'J' in my middle name stands for 'Jenius'" - Donald J. Trump
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If they just feed the audience what it wants, dog food in this case, it’s no longer news, it’s propaganda.
Stop eating dog food.“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ― Oscar Wilde
“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence” ― Bertrand Russell
“not all there” - you know who you are
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Originally posted by firstfloor View PostIf they just feed the audience what it wants, dog food in this case, it’s no longer news, it’s propaganda.
Stop eating dog food.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
The only poll that matters is the poll taken on election day. In this last Presidential election, that vote was decisive.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
Pretty much, yes... and my daughter was taking a course in PoliSci, and they had a whole unit on polling, and how to get the results you want.
1) Are you in favor of raising taxes on personal income?
2) Are you in favor of raising taxes on business income?
3) Are you more in favor of raising taxes on personal income, or business income?
As you can see, no matter how one answers the poll, it can be construed that the majority of respondents are in favor of some sort of tax increase.
I answered no, no, and neither but was told that "neither" was not an acceptable answer to the third question. When I insisted that my answer be recorded as given, I was informed that none of my answers would be recorded if I didn't answer with one of the two options, and that was pretty much the end of the call.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
The only poll that matters is the poll taken on election day. In this last Presidential election, that vote was decisive.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Ronson View Post
The polls taken from suitcases beneath tables behind floor-length tablecloths where no irregularities took place? Yeah, "decisive."Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
Or a sudden dump of tens of thousands of Biden votes (and only Biden votes) in the dead of night that flipped solid Trump leads to a slim Biden leads (we saw this happen in real time on CNN when a number of counties suddenly flipped from red to blue leaving the analysts staring in stunned silence as they tried to figure out what had just happened).
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Originally posted by Ronson View Post
The polls taken from suitcases beneath tables behind floor-length tablecloths where no irregularities took place? Yeah, "decisive."
The Trump administration failed in its claims of massive irregularities and outright fraud in 60+ court cases before 90 judges.
Seems pretty decisive to me, and to the rest of the world.Last edited by kccd; 01-23-2021, 08:53 AM.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
That's ridiculous - if it was the ONLY poll that matters, we wouldn't be having constant polling, would we?
Yes, voting is the ONLY poll that matters.
Other polls are done to inform campaigns of the strengths and weakness, to let the public know how the different candidates are doing, to help donors decide how to spend their money and to give news organizations something to report.
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Originally posted by kccd View Post
Conspiracy theories do not count.
The Trump administration failed in its claims of massive irregularities and outright fraud in 60+ court cases before 90 judges.
Seems pretty decisive to me, and to the rest of the world.
And I know statistical improbabilities when I see them.
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Originally posted by Ronson View Post
I know an "irregularity" when I see it. I don't need a court to validate it for me, they have different criteria to measure by.
And I know statistical improbabilities when I see them.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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