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Originally Posted by CC1
You are incorrect. I give no credence to website "voluntary" polls regardless of what they are about or their results because of the reasons I outlined. They are meaningless.
You are correct that many legitimate polls have biased questionis so I also always try to dig deep and see exactly what the people being polled were asked and then I weigh how much credence I give to the poll by that and also the demographic makeup of the persons polled.
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I agree with a statement attributed to Mark Twain (who attributed it to Voltaire): "There are lies, damned lies and statistics" (a poll is a kind of statistic).
What I object to here is the hypocrisy of dismissing online and text message polls when they favor someone the media doesn't like and praising them when they favor someone the media likes.
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