THREAD ON POLLS: Lots of people wilfully missing the point about my Twitter poll – like, I think Twitter polls are real life
I've been saying for years they're about as reliable as tea leaf reading
The bigger questions: are @YouGov polls representative of the whole population?
I've been saying for years they're about as reliable as tea leaf reading
The bigger questions: are @YouGov polls representative of the whole population?
I know my followers aren't representative of the whole pop: nobody's are. In theory, @YouGov has access to a cross-section of all outlooks. In practice, they know people's views from previous polls. So who gets polled? To back up govt messaging? We should be naturally curious
Thirdly, why are so many liberals/those on Left supportive of authoritarian Tory lockdowns & supportive polls? Is it because they are more likely to be furloughed? Working from home/saving money? So they go with the flow? Again, it's good to be curious
So I did my poll, with a 15k sample size & inbuilt bias, to specifically kickstart this conversation. So the reaction "it's a Twitter poll, duh" was intended. But do we have inbuilt bias in @YouGov? On top of fact MSM/govt nudge msgs/psyops influence us on COVID every day?
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