A majority of Britons support rejoining the European Union's single market even though that would mean the restoration of the free movement of workers from the bloc, according to a poll published on Wednesday.
“Would you choose to undergo an elective surgery to fix your broken leg if it had a 20% chance of killing you?”
Would you chonge your mind if you heard how the chance of getting killed now is 0.05% lower next day. Then another 0.1 higher 3 days later? Oh, and on saturdays your chances to die actually go down to 19%. Unless it’s in a month with an “R”. Oh, and the guy doing the procdure has his own stats that show a 3% lower risk, even 4% if you’re favorite color is green.
That’s an actual analogy of the amount of polls we are flooded with. And that’s also perfectly describing their accuracy and worth.
Do proper polls with a detailed analysis about their methodology once in a while to stay in contact with public opinion and shifts of it. Constantly doing polls again and again for your latest story, always picked from the polling group you know will lean more to your desired result however is nothing more than a tool to give credibility to a narrative.
This entire thing you are calling for, that you were complaining does not exist, already exists and is constantly being improved. I’m not throwing out big accusations, you are taking broad sweeps at stats and polling and asking - really it’s demanding - that they do things they are already doing
No matter how often you say this and deny reality, I can at any given day look up the daily story of how polls shows another 0,1% increase for this party and another loss of 0.05% for that party compared to the last poll about 3 days ago for a fictional election actually happening in 2 years. Complete with pages of text how it’s all X’s fault for policy Y that was actually never discussed and was only mentioned by some backbencher in a Tweet (bonus points when it’s a pure invention of some opposition politician). That’s the reality. A reality I see every day.
A reality of total media failure using polls as a pretense to give their narrative the seeming of plausibility.
And this reality doesn’t change because you don’t want it to exist for your point to be true.
Would you chonge your mind if you heard how the chance of getting killed now is 0.05% lower next day. Then another 0.1 higher 3 days later? Oh, and on saturdays your chances to die actually go down to 19%. Unless it’s in a month with an “R”. Oh, and the guy doing the procdure has his own stats that show a 3% lower risk, even 4% if you’re favorite color is green.
That’s an actual analogy of the amount of polls we are flooded with. And that’s also perfectly describing their accuracy and worth.
Do proper polls with a detailed analysis about their methodology once in a while to stay in contact with public opinion and shifts of it. Constantly doing polls again and again for your latest story, always picked from the polling group you know will lean more to your desired result however is nothing more than a tool to give credibility to a narrative.
No matter how often you say this and deny reality, I can at any given day look up the daily story of how polls shows another 0,1% increase for this party and another loss of 0.05% for that party compared to the last poll about 3 days ago for a fictional election actually happening in 2 years. Complete with pages of text how it’s all X’s fault for policy Y that was actually never discussed and was only mentioned by some backbencher in a Tweet (bonus points when it’s a pure invention of some opposition politician). That’s the reality. A reality I see every day.
A reality of total media failure using polls as a pretense to give their narrative the seeming of plausibility.
And this reality doesn’t change because you don’t want it to exist for your point to be true.
grooooan get over yourself. I’m done man. Feel free to have the last word, I’m sure it’s very important to you.