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In reply to the discussion: New data shows Hillary has tremendous support among liberals, less support among conservative Dems [View all]Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)by the other team whose data was misconstrued and likely used to convince their employer of a happier narrative than reality. I am an equal opportunity skeptic of opinion polling. I've designed and conducted polling in college. I am a poli-sci major who will be pursuing graduate studies in just over a year in the same field, and I see wonky, ill-fitting conclusions drawn every day. I see selection bias. I see push polling. I see error all over the place for a multitude of reasons. I don't disbelieve statics, I find them to be the reasonable background for many a convincing story. Opinion polling as a science unscientific. I see them to be about as useful for fine point prediction as astrology. You might disagree, but my opinion of opinion polling does not make me an ideologue.