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Here’s A List Of Every Single Trump Lie Since He Took Office

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
What about the shock and outrage about various electoral results because people had been repeatedly told it was pretty much a foregone conclusion based on statistical illiteracy among journalists and bogus claims about the reliability of their polls from pollsters?

It continues to feel like you think I'm not getting your point? I think I am. Put another way, it seems like you're not taking "yes" for an answer? maybe I'm missing something?
 
It continues to feel like you think I'm not getting your point? I think I am. Put another way, it seems like you're not taking "yes" for an answer? maybe I'm missing something?

My view is that most narratives constructed based cannot be differentiated from noise so are harmful to truth.

Given their prominence in the political debate, polls are a detriment to knowledge, discourse and democracy [actually if polls were 100% accurate they would still be a detriment to democracy, but that's another story].

I think you believe that polls are pretty useful overall and the odd mistake is not really significant in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps I'm wrong though.
 

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
Premium Member
My view is that most narratives constructed based cannot be differentiated from noise so are harmful to truth.

Given their prominence in the political debate, polls are a detriment to knowledge, discourse and democracy [actually if polls were 100% accurate they would still be a detriment to democracy, but that's another story].

I think you believe that polls are pretty useful overall and the odd mistake is not really significant in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps I'm wrong though.

Thanks for the clarification. I'd say like all other data sources, the validity of the data can go from really good to really bad depending on the source. I often cite large Pew polls. Many of the findings in these polls are less effected by MOEs. So I am aware of how some polls are less reliable and how some polls are more brittle.
 
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