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9. What do you think polling companies are paid to do?

Sat Apr 27, 2013, 07:18 PM

Apr 2013

do you really think that when they want what the public thinks on an issue that they call 300 million people and ask them what they each think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_sample
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size

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Here we go again, repeating lies. supernaut Apr 2013 #1

Please, go learn how statistics work before you post again. Salviati Apr 2013 #2

Please, enlighten me supernaut Apr 2013 #5

The point being.. supernaut Apr 2013 #10

What do you think polling companies are paid to do? Salviati Apr 2013 #9

Gotta love kittens Duckhunter935 Apr 2013 #3

Gun nuts are pretty entertaining too. DanTex Apr 2013 #12

Just proof that we live in a tyranny from gun nuts sandy78 Apr 2013 #4

thought this was Duckhunter935 Apr 2013 #6

Aren't you clever. Kingofalldems Apr 2013 #11

name calling Duckhunter935 Apr 2013 #14

We live in a republic, not a democracy davidn3600 Apr 2013 #8

What the polls did NOT show... Honeycombe8 Apr 2013 #15