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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You know polls are utterly unscientific tea-leaf reading right?

Lmao

Maths is unscientific now

E: To any downvoters: you are stupid.

Polling is just maths, and is very reliable so long as it's done reasonably.

By all means have reservations of this poll specifically, but to call polls in general or as a concept "unscientific tea leaf reading" is foolish. Disagreeing with that mathematical fact is exactly the same as disagreeing that 5 + 5 = 10.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Calling social studies math is an insult to math.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Faked polls are forces of nature now?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

When did I mention faked polls? You're just making up shit now.

You're either a troll or stupid if you don't think polling is mathematics.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Russia polled in villages that they captured that Ukrainians actually want to be annexed by Russia. Can't argue with math right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good strawman. I never said that polls can't have a selection bias.

I said thinking polls in general or polls as a concept are tea leaf reading is stupid. Because it is. If you believe that, you're a moron. You may as well say you disagree with the concept that 5 + 5 is 10.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm saying that the JERUSALEM POST posting an articles about how Arabs think negatively about israel is not reliable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's not what was said...

And that isn't necessarily true either. Got any proof?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

It’s impossible to prove a negative