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Originally Posted by Carth
Now come on, we all know that as far as these polls go they ask a certain amount of people and then discard half of the results they don't like.
Did people really believe that 9 out of 10 cats preferred whiskas, or that every family had 2.4 children?
Polls and statistical analysis are flawed, tell me another . . . .
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That's why polling companies publish their questions, underlying data and methodologies.
All polling isn't equal. A poll commissioned by a company to help sell a product is obviously more suspect than a poll commissioned by The Times newspaper who publish the same poll every month irrespective of the result.