Not excusing Trump, but maybe news orgs should stop running online polls if they don't want the bogus data constantly cited back to them?https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/781606386207567872 …
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Replying to @trevortimm
"How DARE you cite a bogus online poll that our media organization put out and promoted and encouraged people participate in!"
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Replying to @trevortimm
They're extremely imprecise measures of online enthusiasm. So not entirely "worthless," just unrepresentative of the electorate.
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Replying to @mtracey
even that's debatable, since they can be automated and gamed by one determined individual
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Replying to @trevortimm
Aren't there safeguards for that in most polls now?
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Replying to @trevortimm
Trump won every online poll during the GOP primary. It's not necessarily correlative to anything electorally...
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...but maybe should be taken as one discrete "enthusiasm" indicator, rather than dismissed as 100% worthless.
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Replying to @mtracey
maybe it's possible in some of the cases, not in others, but there are better ways of measuring enthusiasm too
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