When asked if ppl would make someone a dictator for the US, 47% said no - but when I asked people to report their political leanings in *addition* to if they'd make someone a dictator, 60% said no.pic.twitter.com/cgCSt6Fxsd
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That was my thought.
This is the best use of twitter
Maybe people more likely to be risk-averse and say no to the first poll are people who skipped the second poll because they don’t like picking a “side”
Maybe you’re missing people who don’t have a tribal affiliation and are then excluded from poll 2. Among the “No” voters in the first poll, perhaps you lost a lot of them by applying a criteria that they felt didn’t apply to them in poll 2. 40% lower turnout on 2nd one supports
And this is an anonymous poll, with nothing to show off. Imagine if people had to actually tweet their response
The variation in response rates the the two polls admit a number of other hypotheses. (Which is not to say yours is wrong.)
The first poll has 2k more votes. I'd imagine that skewed the results a little.
Maybe but Ive been doing twitter polls for years and I doubt this is relevant
I guess another explanation might be that introducing a question about affiliation might make some people less likely to participate - thus changing the balance of your overall sample, rather than changing how your sample behaves?
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