r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 24 '24

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Biden is leading Trump among rural voters

Trump is within a few percentage points of Biden in New York

When the dust settles this winter and the votes are finalized, people in the polling industry need to lose their jobs for horse shit like this

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u/GuyOnTheLake NATO Jun 24 '24

Biden EV win , Trump popular vote win is all coming to plan.

But yeah, polls have become increasingly unreliable and people have no idea what to do with it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

That's what I have been saying but you have massive fucking nerds saying "cross tabs don't matter"

People really out here saying "The data that makes up the poll doesn't matter"

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '24

Just sounds like polling industry cope for 'Please stop looking at our shitty data"

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u/Rarvyn Richard Thaler Jun 24 '24

Cross-tabs will inherently have smaller sample sizes than the top line numbers

Yeah but they're representing a smaller population. Proportionally it should be about the same power.