• jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
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      7 months ago

      Polls are generally pretty accurate. You get some big examples that people blow out of proportion. Or certain agencies that have a specific bias

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        7 months ago

        The error is large enough that I don’t think the absolute measurements are useful, but the relative changes can be

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      It depends, I worked with a statistician that worked for a major polling company and they take their job pretty seriously, a bit too much. It can be made to skew a certain way by asking questions that serves a certain conclusion but this is just vad methodology. To blanket statement the whole thing as propaganda mostly serves the propagandists. Then the common man can just bias themselves in whatever suits them best.