• mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    all national polling is so shot. Hardly anyone I know has even bothered to answer their phone for election polling (or at all given the intense volume of spam callers presently). Who tf is answering a CBS about the muskrat brigade??? They’re probably just calling the same 20 people who are glued to cable news and pushing a percent or two around to make the numbers look better.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah honestly at this point I think phone polling is less than worthless. By using that method you are inherently selecting for a non-representative sample of the population.

      It’s not a good method for finding the opinions of “the average American” because “the average American” doesn’t answer unknown calls.