• Sarah Valentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 hours ago

    I don’t know. Is this poll representative of the entire voting-eligible population of America? Is it just NYT readers who responded? How do we know the poll results aren’t just made the fuck up? This is far from believable, let alone conclusive.

    • Postimo@lemmy.zip
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      10 hours ago

      The survey was conducted among 1,625 registered voters nationwide from Jan. 12 to 17, 2026.

      This poll was conducted in English and Spanish, by telephone using live interviewers and by text message. Overall, 98 percent of respondents were contacted on their cellphone.

      Voters are selected for the survey from a list of registered voters. The list contains information on the demographic characteristics of every registered voter, allowing us to make sure we reach the right number of voters of each party, race and region. For this poll, interviewers placed more than 188,000 calls or texts to more than 86,000 voters.

      To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents, like people without a college degree. You can see more information about the characteristics of our respondents and the weighted sample at the bottom of the page, under “Composition of the Sample.”

      The margin of sampling error among registered voters is about plus or minus 2.8 percentage points. In theory, this means that the results should reflect the views of the overall population most of the time, though many other challenges create additional sources of error.

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        2 hours ago

        “By telephone” - that there shows the bias in the survey. Younger and more informed people ignore unknown calls due to the risk of social engineers.

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          15 minutes ago

          and by text message.

          To further ensure that the results reflect the entire voting population, not just those willing to take a poll, we give more weight to respondents from demographic groups that are underrepresented among survey respondents

          I think they thought of that

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          8 minutes ago

          Do you have math on the statistics that would suggest the error rate would be higher than 2.8%?

      • Sarah Valentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 hours ago

        That’s better than I thought, assuming those stats can be believed. NYT has a nasty habit of sanewashing or outright supporting the insane shit this administration does. Thanks for providing the info!