Twitter polls are no better than noise, they said. Concluding anything based off twitter polls is laughable and meaningless, they said. Real research is the kind that gets published in academic journals, they said.
(look at that stable 2.2%!)
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twitter polls obvs aren't perfect, but there's lots of ways to get a good grasp on their limitations and draw pretty good conclusions from their data. I think people often dismiss them because they don't have enough "science aesthetic".
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The polls are showing an accurate census of people who see your tweets. The real question is whether that population is representative of any larger groups.
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i feel like everybody just learned that 'is it representative' is a button they can push and so they just push it without understanding why and when and how representation affects interpretations
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It gets real fun when you play with phrasing (just a little) you can basically make polls say anything you want
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this is the most incorrect thing ive ever heard, and im also being sharp about it because soooo many people repeat this at me i have very little patience for it at this point
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There is a selection bias going on here.
Aella followers are not representative of the whole population. They might be for COVID. They are not in other matters.
Polls are fun tho.
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Twitter is neither more nor less reliable than any other 'self-selection' research where the individuals choose whether to participate. The difference is you're not targeting a specific population.
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