If polls are so unreliable...

[rykertest]

Why do the news outlets keep doing them? Is it to fill air time? It's amazing how polls can vary so much from one media outlet to another.

 

[bigmann245]

Why do the news outlets keep doing them? Is it to fill air time? It's amazing how polls can vary so much from one media outlet to another.

each station has its own biases. like last night on cnn they just did not want to admit Clinton won Indiana and even the "experts" they had on there kept saying obama had a good chance on winning but yet there was over 80% of the votes in but at only 20% of the votes in for north carolina they already picked obama to win. they just couldnt accept the fact clinton won. then they tried downplaying the fact that obama projected he would win indiana but looked like an ass cause he was wrong.

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

A recent survey found 99% of all polls are unreliable.

 

[rykertest]

A recent survey found 99% of all polls are unreliable.

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[javaguru]

My pole is very reliable, I can provide ex-gf references.

 

[nimbus]

because they're better than nothing. also provided that they use the same sampling methodology, with the same biases, repeatedly, the polls can still be useful to show how a candidate's voter share is changing from one polling period to another, even though the actual predicted share itself might not be reliable

 

[Pat_McCrotch]

My pole is very reliable, I can provide ex-gf references.

gf=gay friends?

 

[Razorguns]

Why do the news outlets keep doing them? Is it to fill air time? It's amazing how polls can vary so much from one media outlet to another.

It fulfills an agenda the network has.

I can use polls to prove anything. Such as polling 10 guys at the anger management course, and concluding that 'most men want smurfy to stay in the kitchen and cook an apple pie'.

Actually, i can take that poll anywhere.

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