• @nac82@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    But under what factual basis are you discarding a 900 person sample size?

    I dont remember polls insisting Clinton would win, I remember dumb people saying thats what polls said, and your source makes me not feel shifted in that opinion.

    A 3% margin on a poll in no way is declaring total victory to anybody.

    Many of the polls you just shared have a 1% difference in support rate.

    So you think a 1% better polling rate is " declared total victory for Clinton" but feel confident in discarding a 900 person sample?

    If there was 10k people in the polls ypu are referencing, you are using 900 people as proof of absolute victory lol.

    • @Dive@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      i dont know what point of mine youre arguing against

      i dont trust political polls in general, and as far as political polls go this one is on the lower end. all i did was make comparisons to other (larger) polls that did not manage to capture the true distribution of voter intent

          • @solstice@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            I just want to chime in and say I don’t disagree with you. Your tone wasn’t dismissive or condescending at all and the disparaging comments replying to you are pretty rude.

            I’ve only been around Lemmy a short time so my sample size is quite small too, but I’ve seen a lot of rude condescending pricks around here so far. There’s all these threads talk about a great lemmy is and how much better than Reddit it is but I’m just seeing a bunch of assholes so far tbh. That doesn’t have anything to do with this post or thread, just venting.

            • @solstice@lemmy.world
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              21 year ago

              Why are you so aggressive and condescending? Bring it in will you, you’re making lemmy a toxic shithole like Reddit and this community is like five seconds old.

              • @nac82@lemm.ee
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                1 year ago

                The irony.

                His bad faith “i don’t know what I said” shtick is just as shitty as your play the victim bullshit.

                I sent very clear and fair discussion points his way and he continually engaged in gish gallop. Then here you show up being a toxic POS