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    this poll queried 900 voters. 900 people who are the type of people to respond to political polls

    for reference, almost 155 million people voted in 2020

    so this poll was conducted with less than 0.0006% of the voting population of 2020, and the group that responded is a particular (and biased) group. edit: for additional reference, biden received 7 million more votes than trump did in 2020, which is roughly 7,800 times more voters than were polled for this article.

    ignore this completely

    go fucking vote

    in fact tell the next 10 people you talk to to vote as well

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        1 year ago

        thanks for being condescending, but i do understand how sample sizes work. i also know how selection and self-selection biases work.

        but by all means, feel free to let me know what meaningful conclusions we should take from this poll.

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          But under what factual basis are you discarding a 900 person sample size?

          I dont remember polls insisting Clinton would win, I remember dumb people saying thats what polls said, and your source makes me not feel shifted in that opinion.

          A 3% margin on a poll in no way is declaring total victory to anybody.

          Many of the polls you just shared have a 1% difference in support rate.

          So you think a 1% better polling rate is " declared total victory for Clinton" but feel confident in discarding a 900 person sample?

          If there was 10k people in the polls ypu are referencing, you are using 900 people as proof of absolute victory lol.

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            i dont know what point of mine youre arguing against

            i dont trust political polls in general, and as far as political polls go this one is on the lower end. all i did was make comparisons to other (larger) polls that did not manage to capture the true distribution of voter intent