• dan@upvote.au
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    1 month ago

    I don’t know how participants in polls are selected, so I’m not really qualified to make assumptions about it.

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      1 month ago

      The methodolgy section of their site lays it all out. It’s a selling point. And no, it’s not random.

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        1 month ago

        And no, it’s not random.

        In that case, the data is practically meaningless :D

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          1 month ago

          Well that’s the thing. Do meaningless things make the national news everyday in October? Yes. And here we are in June. They’re gonna throw more money at us until we forget about 2016. And since that’s not going to happen, it’s all this.