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Originally Posted by Carth
This tells me absolutely nothing, and I wonder why supposedly intelligent people still fall for it.
75% of how many?
61% of how many?
Was it an average result of 20 million people asked in the streets throughout the UK?
Was it a carefully selected selection of people affiliated to political parties?
Was it a 'phone in' poll conducted by a local radio station with 238 listeners?
People throw this 'statistical' garbage around like it actually proves something 
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It's not perfect (and incidentally pollsters find a cross-section of society, it isn't a twitter poll) but it's better than going off what you reakon.