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**Chris** · 07-03-2021, 08:33

The sample size is good, especially bearing in mind Scotland’s population is far smaller than the uk’s as a whole - UK-wide newspaper polls frequently use 1,000 adults.

The only thing that makes it not directly comparable with previous ones is they didn’t weight for voter turnout. They seem not to have done that because their interest was more to do with the effects of the recent shenanigans with Salmond and Sturgeon. In that sense their polling question was already loaded so refining for voter turnout would be a pointless additional step anyway.

Still it is an interesting contribution to the picture. I suspect this May’s Holyrood elections will be quite the spectacle.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,194	Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK? The sample size is good, especially bearing in mind Scotland’s population is far smaller than the uk’s as a whole - UK-wide newspaper polls frequently use 1,000 adults. The only thing that makes it not directly comparable with previous ones is they didn’t weight for voter turnout. They seem not to have done that because their interest was more to do with the effects of the recent shenanigans with Salmond and Sturgeon. In that sense their polling question was already loaded so refining for voter turnout would be a pointless additional step anyway. Still it is an interesting contribution to the picture. I suspect this May’s Holyrood elections will be quite the spectacle.