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[–] Hypx@fedia.io 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Polling has become a mess, mainly because we can no longer rely on landlines for generating unbiased samples. Most attempts at fixing this issue, such as online polling, have their own massive biases. So it's incredibly difficult to figure out what's real and what's not. And no, doing a hundred bad polls or increasing the sample size won't fix it. Bias in the data can only be fixed by figuring out a way of creating truly fair samples.

[–] burningmatches@feddit.uk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the article? It looks at voting data.

[–] Hypx@fedia.io 12 points 7 months ago

Very cherry-picked voting data. Rural Texas and New York after a huge scandal are very underwhelming examples.