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Aella
@Aella_Girl
A RANT: Are my polls unscientific? Depends on what you mean - but largely I hear the word 'unscientific' used in place of 'does not have enough sciencey aesthetic' - for example often people say my twitter polls aren't 'scientific' by pointing to some of my joke polls 1/
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Jill S Budden
@JillBudden
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@holzprueghel
Experimental studies and surveys have different goals. Random assignment to groups to draw a conclusion about some variable, typically to test a theory. The latter is to generalize to a certain population. Your polls are not generalizable.
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