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To: mlocher
Anytine someone has to qualify their poll by calling it scientific, or stunning, I tune out.

Anytime someone has a poll, period, I tune out.

As far as I'm concerned, they're ALL made up. To anyone reading, have you ever been part of a national poll? Ever known anyone who has? With as many polls as there are on a weekly basis, you'd think after years, decades of these, that the odds would be that just once, if not you, then someone you know would say they'd been polled. But for me at least, that has NEVER happened. Anyone have anything different to report?

50 posted on 03/20/2011 10:03:49 PM PDT by Ackackadack
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To: Ackackadack
I was polled once around 2002. They asked loaded questions like, “are you in favor of X even though it could hurt minorities...
I messed them up good.
53 posted on 03/21/2011 12:36:21 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Ackackadack

“To anyone reading, have you ever been part of a national poll?”

Since most polls only have about 1,000 adults, your chances of being selected for any given poll are 1 in 250,000. Thus, even if there are 100 polls a year, your chances of being selected are still only 1 in 2500.


56 posted on 03/21/2011 3:47:28 AM PDT by DrC
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