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| Topic | How is Trump's Approval rating still at 45%? |
| darkknight109 04/25/19 10:22:48 PM #217: | mooreandrew58 posted... thing is you might get completely different results if you go to a different area. Yes, which is why good polls will poll in many different areas rather than just one. mooreandrew58 posted... some i'm sure intentionally skew the results by focusing on one area Skew usually happens through methodology (i.e. how the data is manipulated) rather than in how it is gathered. Rasmussen, for instance, is notoriously bad for that. mooreandrew58 posted... its why I never really trust it. You should, because they're pretty accurate. I mean, if you want proof all you need to do is compare poll results to electoral results. What you find is that the "big", national elections usually see an average error in the range of ~+/-4% from what the polls called, while smaller, state-level or representative-level races usually manage ~+/-5%. And they usually get the "who is going to win" question right about 80% of the time. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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