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Originally Posted by Monkey Wrench

media who gather information and then report it as substantial information through the results of "surveys" and phone polls.

its laughable, Now who in their right mind takes time out of their busy day to fill in "online surveys" or participate in "phone polls" ?

I know that for myself Im pretty quick to hang up if I get a robocall to answer a "phone poll or to click away from any sort of " online poll"

the results are only polling people who do, which is a very thin slice of th total whoi were bothered.

whay does "media " rely on it so often?
its a cheap way to present inacurate info under some assumption that polls are accurate.

real polls happen in privacy at polling stations.
rant off,, ;-)

I think you'd be surprised. I suspect lots of folks take online polls. There are enough idiots out there to fill online polls with idiot data.