there's an impulse to dismiss polls you don't like, or to refuse to believe a poll on the grounds that polls don't matter...but polls are really useful!
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people talk about info bubbles. polls tell you what the folks you're not talking to think. obviously they're not all perfect and some skepticism, etc, but they really are the best instrument we have for gauging public opinion.
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they can help you shape messaging, or give you a sense of how out of sync you are (or in sync!)
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so yeah. polls are not the be all and end all, but a useful source of information.
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this is just a general observation but I think a lot of us would feel better about polling if any of us were ever actually polled
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I, dead-to-rights, have no idea how polling works. It just feels like at some point somebody would have asked me how I felt about something.
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Current highest standard for a scientific, random sampling poll requires you have a phone number they can call at random
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That's how Dewey won, right?
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