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If the polling is this wacky, why bother publishing it at all?

Over the weekend, ABC and the Washington Post published the results of a poll that made both operations look like its results were the product of a month-long exercise with a Magic 8-Ball. The way you know it was an embarrassment is the Post story about the poll began by telling us all we should probably ignore it completely.

The Post-ABC poll shows Biden trailing Trump by 10 percentage points at this early stage in the election cycle, although the sizable margin of Trump’s lead in this survey is significantly at odds with other public polls that show the general election contest a virtual dead heat. The difference between this poll and others, as well as the unusual makeup of Trump’s and Biden’s coalitions in this survey, suggest it is probably an outlier.

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[–] tym 7 points 1 year ago

Pffft.. I've been microdosing for years and I would never believe that shit!

[–] LongPigFlavor 7 points 1 year ago

Mid 20s gen z here. I'll be sure to vote for Biden. All in all he's pretty alright in my book. Sure things could be better, but that's going to take a bit more time, hopefully his successors will be better.

[–] arin 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we have politicians that are at least 20 years younger than moscow mitch?

[–] hr_ 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here's a writeup by FiveThirtyEight that happens to now be a part of ABC but didn't participate in this pill: How outlier polls happen — and what to do with them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These polls also don't sample people who use call screening (Google Voice for me) to ask unknown callers to say their name, because this breaks most robodialers.

There are dozens of us!!

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[–] qwertyWarlord 4 points 1 year ago

Polling has fallen into the same problem as everything else, they just skew the methods to make the numbers fit a narrative, be that the person paying them or some misguided ideas. Polling has been shit for years now, just ignore it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You'd have to be a fox "news" watcher.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Msuhrooms sound real good, guess that's a plan for the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More bullshit from our bullshit media ~ "Can't understand how a high plains grifter got elected!?"

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