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Are Today's Polls Clueless?
Frisky070802 writes "As noted on electoral-vote, Jimmy Breslin has an interesting article in Newsday on why polls are broken. This is because they poll only landline phones, and a substantial fraction of younger people have only cell phones -- so they hit a biased demographic. If a majority of younger voters tend Democratic, the polls could be giving Kerry a raw deal. Hmm, could this be why two polls released this week vary so widely?"
Most polls lack the all-important CowboyNeil option.
Ceci n'est pas un post.
The only votes that truly matter are the middle-aged middle-class votes. Period.
There is an easy workaround for this, next time you are voting. See that box labelled "middle-aged, middle-class"? Check it, even if it isn't true. They can't verify it, after all.
Once you do that, you'll find your vote counted along with all the rest of our votes.
You're absolutely right. There are plenty of young idiots voting for Bush and wise elders voting for Kerry. ;)
Yes, it is biased. There's no reason to believe that older people would necessarily be more inclined to believe the Bush admin's lies than younger people would.
I would contend that people who carry cell phones only tend to be more intelligent, hence more conservative.
I think I'm just going to let that sentence sit there all by itself for a while, in all its lonely glory.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
You might want to preview your opinions as well before people think you're a nutbag.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
> its really disturbing to see how many ranchers out here have Cell phones, laptops, wireless access, etc..
Huh? Why is that disturbing?
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