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Re: existence of bad pollsters

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Tue, 06 Nov 12 7:20 PM | 92 view(s)
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I have found that if I use pollster and just eliminate blindly internet, web, and robos that what I end up with looks much more sane. I think that disposes of all of those you cited e.g. It shrinks the sample a great deal, but the real outliers seem to depend on robos and web/internet.

It seems web/interent is insane, one has to see the poll first, which I assume is a function of going to a page where it is at, which seems like a massively biased event.

I suspect that if TheTrustMatrix and POPEII both ran web polls they would see different results, just as larryflint.com would undoubtedly massively over-represent tea party members of congress. Or maybe I don't get how web polling is done.


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existence of bad pollsters
By: Cactus Flower
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Tue, 06 Nov 12 4:45 PM
Msg. 11387 of 54959

anyone else notice that there are folks doing "polling" who appear to poll to move the average numbers.

i'm excluding folks with consistent small house effects.

my hall of shame includes mason-dixon, fmwb,jz analytics and wenzel strategies. whatever everyone else is saying, these folks pursue their agenda. accuracy ain't part of it.


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