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Topic	Majority of Americans prefer Trump to Biden, according to recent poll
NoxObscuras 02/25/25 6:39:37 PM #32:	ConfusedTorchic posted... it is important to look at the sample size for these things 2000 people aren't the majority for anything extrapolated to a nationwide consensus 2000 people is the size of a town whose name is just a number designation. Nah. It's not sample size that would make a poll inaccurate. The things that would skew the results would be if the polling wasn't done randomly, or if they polled people all from one place. Like if they walked into the campus of Bringham Young University and just polled 2000 students there. Then yeah, that would not be representative of the whole country, because that's a very Conservative leaning school. --- Steam/Xbox/PSN = NoxObscuras <cite>NoxObscuras posted [p:984167473] in Majority o... [t:80940906]...</cite> <quote>ConfusedTorchic posted... </cite><quote>it is important to look at the sample size for these things2000 people aren't the majority for anything extrapolated to a nationwide consensus2000 people is the size of a town whose name is just a number designation.</quote>Nah. It's not sample size that would make a poll inaccurate. The things that would skew the results would be if the polling wasn't done randomly, or if they polled people all from one place. Like if they walked into the campus of Bringham Young University and just polled 2000 students there. Then yeah, that would not be representative of the whole country, because that's a very Conservative leaning school. --- Steam/Xbox/PSN = NoxObscuras</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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