August 28, 2014

Bogus polls

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This is a good illustration of why they’re meaningless…

Bogus polls

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    Thomas Lumley

    Less accurate than a random sample of 70 people

    10 years ago

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    Jay Best

    The sample bias of the 75c per vote for the TVNZ vote, is pretty much a perfect way to skew a poll to the right. (Also their site crashed through the debate).

    Both NZ Herald and Newstalk, being online based are also surely open to click fraud / bots?

    10 years ago