Five@slrpnk.net to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 27 days agoDonald Trump suffers triple polling blow in 48 hours after guilty verdictwww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1101arrow-down10cross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1101arrow-down1external-linkDonald Trump suffers triple polling blow in 48 hours after guilty verdictwww.newsweek.comFive@slrpnk.net to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square31fedilinkcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.ml
minus-squareapis@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·27 days agoWould put some of that down to people making errors with checkboxes, comprehension issues & trolling. But yeah, some people just like conviction regardless of their thoughts on a case.
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·27 days agoThey should be controlling for those things
minus-squareFal@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoWhat does that mean? You want them to just throw out data that they don’t like?
minus-squareapis@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoIt would be very rare not to do so. Most poll results give the margins of error of the method(s) used. No idea if this one did or not, but 2% and 3% don’t seem dramatic enough to not be explicable by margin of error issues.
Would put some of that down to people making errors with checkboxes, comprehension issues & trolling.
But yeah, some people just like conviction regardless of their thoughts on a case.
They should be controlling for those things
What does that mean? You want them to just throw out data that they don’t like?
It would be very rare not to do so.
Most poll results give the margins of error of the method(s) used. No idea if this one did or not, but 2% and 3% don’t seem dramatic enough to not be explicable by margin of error issues.