• Optional@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Full Methodology

    The New York Times/Siena College polls were conducted in English and Spanish on cellular and landline telephones in Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina from Sept. 17 to 21, 2024; In all, 2,077 likely voters were interviewed.

    Harris voter: checks caller ID, sees it’s spam, blocks call

    NYT: a ha! But we’ll just get that one millennial asshole who answered and said they’d vote trump to troll us and multiply it by 1,000. There. All balanced out now. Looks good.

    Polls.

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      2 hours ago

      That’s without joking exactly what they do. Now if that one millennial voter is a different one in each cohort of participants you get huge swings in the survey that are not very predictive of election outcomes, and that error is poorly represented in the margin of error.

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    3 hours ago

    Opinion polls look good, opinion polls look bad, doesn’t matter. Just get yourself and the people around you to vote for Harris and progressives all the way down the ticket.

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    I’m sure New York Times made sure to poll few enough people to get what they wanted with their … checks article

    The margin of error in each state is between four and five percentage points.

    So, Statistics 101, which surely no journalist has ever taken, says we can’t say anything about anyone leading anyone else here.

    Ok then.

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      2 hours ago

      The NYT has its place. NYT polls are crap. Political coverage? Crap. Timely news coverage? Crap. The occasional long-form piece about an obscure musicology journal with only about three dozen subscribers worldwide that’s experiencing some crazy infighting? Stellar.