One thing that bothers me is when ppl critique my data as "unscientific" due to sampling bias.
First, y'all better not look into a lot of what you think are "scientific" studies
Second, there's nothing wrong with sampling bias if you acknowledge limitations and don't extrapolate.
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Yes, I know most of my responders are white cis men between 25-40 who are associated with STEM, vaguely liberal/centrist/libertarian. There's nothing about collecting data from a particular demographic that's unscientific as long as you're upfront about the demographic.
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This comes from an understanding of "science" I find a bit weird; science is not a mystical thing that descends upon your work once you've achieved perfectly random distribution of your sample. Science is just a process of figuring things out! There's lots of ways to do it!
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Just make sure you're upfront about your methodology, where you got your data from, the limitations of what can be directly extrapolated from that data, and try to get familiar with the easy ways you can accidentally misinterpret data despite good intent.
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Science is just being curious and then having the patience and honesty to observe. Don’t know why people want to be arrogant and restrictive about it
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Your polls are nerd casting?
You are casting narrative nets and a certain demographic responds more consistently?
There is a lot of art in your science 🥂
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When I was at university, it was on occasion said by lecturers that a study was ‘bad’ and implied that it could be disregarded entirely, just because of a sampling limitation. Invariably, the lecturer had a SSSM bias and the findings contradicted their views.
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Your polls are so legit. Idk how this began but I want it to continue and flourish!