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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (172258)8/17/2001 12:04:06 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
I have provided a reason behind my opinion that the explosion of polling harms the process of debating public policy issues.

Please provide a reason behind your opinion that they are valuable.



To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (172258)8/17/2001 12:18:42 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
The problem is that the sampling in the bar (site) is very unlikely to be representative of the population at large, whereas a truly random sampling will pretty well correlate with the national distribution of various demographic factors (age, region, ethnicity, sex, income, etc.), and therefore is likely to be representative when it tests opinion.......


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