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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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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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random samples matter when random samples are relevant to your result! But they can *still* matter even if they're not random! And selection effects are only a good critique in specific instances! And in much of what i publish, random samples are *not* relevant to my results!

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maybe ill go pound out an angry blog post so i can just link it in my comments whenever i get these responses

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you must not hear very much.