Are political polls ever right?

verbatim · 12-30-2002, 01:56 PM

The statistics themselves arent wrong, its probably the way they drew their sample from the population. Given that it's a last minute poll, they probably sampled 100 or 200 people (a very small sample compared to the population) very sloppily. Maybe some "random" phone calls, someone asking questions outside a mall, etc....

So for the group that they polled, yes, those statistics are correct. But compared to the population, thats when you begin to see changes.

If you take the math that you see on tv seriously, you're crazy.

Zogby...I have no idea how they screwed up that bad.

12-30-2002, 01:56 PM	#2
verbatim Vice-President of Resentment Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Pennsultucky Posts: 199	The statistics themselves arent wrong, its probably the way they drew their sample from the population. Given that it's a last minute poll, they probably sampled 100 or 200 people (a very small sample compared to the population) very sloppily. Maybe some "random" phone calls, someone asking questions outside a mall, etc.... So for the group that they polled, yes, those statistics are correct. But compared to the population, thats when you begin to see changes. If you take the math that you see on tv seriously, you're crazy. Zogby...I have no idea how they screwed up that bad. __________________ <-- I'm with stupid

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