• sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
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    22 days ago

    There’s no link in the article to the Pew Research study they’re supposedly citing and they write it out as if all Americans participated. Why do people cite polls as if they’re accurate? I’ve never participated in one and with all the propaganda Americans are fed I don’t see how any of them are believable.

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      22 days ago

      Because polls exist to try and get a representative sample, and they bank their whole reremovedtion on it.

      Just because you’ve never been polled doesn’t mean they don’t exist or work.

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        21 days ago

        The first part of what you said I understand. The second part is just an example of one perspective to take on the legitimacy of polls. Besides that I still wouldn’t ever trust one with all the propaganda going around and hope that others don’t either.