Nathaniel Swigger on Nostr: I’m a world with 1% response rates and survey weights, polls are not objective ...
I’m a world with 1% response rates and survey weights, polls are not objective measures. They are a measure of what the pollster thinks the world is.
That’s not nothing. It’s not zero information. But it’s not like measuring temperature or rainfall and you shouldn’t treat it as such.
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