• warm@kbin.earth
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    12 days ago

    1000 people is such an irrelevant data set. Where was the poll even posted? Media like this is what’s causing our problems.

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        12 days ago

        For random bias yes. Unfortunately, that age group are notoriously difficult to poll accurately. Without knowing how the polling was done, detecting systematic bias is difficult.

        E.g. street polling on a Sunday morning, near a church, or mosque will get vastly different results to the same poll near the high street, on a Friday night.

        Also relevant. https://xkcd.com/882/

        Don’t get me wrong, it’s a worrying poll. Buta lot of studies like this disappear back into the noise, when studied by multiple groups.