• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    I’m just saying that a good chunk of nonvoters have never voted, so there is no preexisting pattern to predict what they would do. For the last 4 elections, the polls have been largely incorrect. It just seems like a massive assumption to say if every single person voted, he still would have won, particularly when you consider the statistical anomalies in the swing states this last election.

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        4 months ago

        Right, but that is a survey of the type of people who answer surveys. I have to wonder how many people who don’t bother to vote also do bother to answer surveys about voting.

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          4 months ago

          So do you have any evidence to imply that willingness to respond to a survey has anything to do with political orientation?

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        4 months ago

        I have yet to understand how surveys compensate for most people ignoring unknown phone calls or texts. The ones who do answer are not representative of the total population.

        I know some of people who were hit by scam surveys the last year, which are common too. Those scams scare some people away even from snail mail invites.

        I think until these methods explained slowly, in small words, I am going to assume this is biased to older and more gullible , those who drift towards Trump.

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          4 months ago

          This one has a pre-cleared set of respondents who want to take polls.

          Which is weird. But then math makes it good. Trust us, bro.