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Time, CNBC, and Drudge vs. CNN
After last night’s debate, CNN, Time, CNBC, and the Drudge Report conducted online polls on their websites of those who had watched the debate. According to CNN, 62% of the voters who tuned in thought that Hillary had won. Time reports that 55% thought that Trump had won. CNBC informs us that 67% thought that Trump had won. And the Drudge Report found that 82.34% thought that Trump had won.
Go figure.
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There is credible evidence that much of Trump’s online support orginiates in Russia:
https://twitter.com/DustinGiebel/status/780814613021548544
I wouldn’t put too much stock in instant online reaction polls. Lets wait a few days and see what the scientific polls say.
One of these polls is not like the others, one of these polls just doesn’t belong…
Any guesses as to which of the four outlets actually conducted a poll as opposed to a completely useless online survey?
This one.
That may be write. Ronald Reagan persistently outdid the polls by 5%.
Fair enough. But the sample was, as CNN admits, badly skewed.
If they used good polling methodology they would have accounted for this.
Why due we quote online polling at all, it is not junk science but it is not science either (it falls under anecdotal evidence). Statisticians have know for a long time now that online polling is never statistically significant. Its just to hard to get a statistically sound population selections. So really all this proves is how worthless online polling is. However the CNN poll was done via more traditional and sound method’s so it might be worth something. Then again as said already they did not get a good cross section of the population so even their poll has issues.
So yay always ignore online polling regardless of the questions asked or the site doing it because nothing is going to make it objective evidence.
Good point. While we’re at it, we should establish what the term “debate” means.
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