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ppl often tell me my twitter polls are bad cause sampling bias or lizardmen's constant. but uh, naw man. I often do twitter polls intended specifically to check the extent to which these problems impact my data - and it's different per type of question!

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nearly all data is great, the question is how you interpret it - and I very rarely treat my polls as though they are a representative sample of an honest population.

8:47 AM · May 8, 2021

@MrSimmoSimpson

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What are your thoughts on others using your polls without taking such considerations into account?

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@MrSimmoSimpson

I don't like it and try to correct when I see it

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Test the test. Look at the way we see. Think about the way we think. Perceive our perceptual framework.

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I sometimes find your polls so hard to answer that I don't. They are the only polls I see on here that can actually render me unable to select an option.

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could give you some hints into how to frame twitter poll depending on what you are actually looking for, he has been doing that for a long while

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So you haven't had penetrative sex with 10 percent Twitter users?

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@WarnerBernieBro

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Do you have long term goals for your Twitter poll Data?

Misha Gurevich, Photographer, VC, Wives 0/1

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The real test is whether you can monetize it

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