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Originally Posted by pip08456
Pointless discussing the results of a survey of a small representative sample.
c.2.500 people represent the feelings of over 60m???
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Well this is why we have elections rather than let polls decide everything but they don't just get a random sample of 2,500. They balance out the sample with different demographics and then weight it to reflect society. It's not like an internet poll or asking random people in the street.
It does tend to work. They are quite good at this kind of thing and it's in use everyday in all sorts of industries.
Even the polling errors people like to cite are still roughly correct, at least in terms of sheer numbers if not when they try to project seats.