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Politics : Politics for Conservatives
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To: Thehammer who wrote (36209)8/16/2014 4:22:12 PM
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The polling companies hide behind the word "scientific" but it's nothing like that in real life.
Say scientific sampling theory says they need 1000 samples for a given population to adequately capture the true attitude of that population. That is scientific no doubt about it.

So they contact 1000 people at (let's give them the benefit of the doubt) random. Typically 600 people blow them off. So you have an adequate random sample but a majority of those samples have null information.

What they don't tell you is they have proprietary (read secret) techniques to try to make sense of this garbage data. Are these techniques valid? Who knows? It's secret.

Anyone who questions the validity of polling is dismissed with condescension as someone who doesn't understand the theory. I don't question the theory. I question the vast gap between the theory and the reality.
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