• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between Sept. 19-20, and had the margin of error varied across questions, reported as 3 percentage points. Numbers have been rounded.

    Who were these registered voters? What was the demographics breakdown? How were they contacted? What was the methodology? Were the questions loaded?

    Of course, the press never asks any of this.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a great point. I’d also like to throw in the question “what kind of person stops to answer these polls?”. I don’t feel like younger folks are going to be quite as keen. Politics as an identity tends to be an older generational thing.

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        This is the biggest issues I have with pills right now. The younger demos don’t answer phones, so the responses are going to be skewed, and I can’t imagine there are many places that can reasonably do in person polling with any kind of reasonable mixes of demos.

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      1 year ago

      Of course, the press never asks any of this.

      The horse race reporters might not, but pollsters do. They worry about this sort of thing a lot, and try to correct for it, when possible.

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      There’s a link below to the poll questions, but it doesn’t say how the people were contacted. Given the answers about if they are voting for a Republican or Democrat and more worried about Biden’s mental health over Trump’s, I’m pretty sure these were phone calls, which of course, aren’t accurate of the whole populace. It’s all bullshit if you rely only on who picks up the phone.