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everdrive 80 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Mach...

A lot of polling is quite terrible, and the questions are designed to get the desired answers. It doesn't mean that polling itself is invalid, but it's often warped to be invalid by idealists.

scarmig 80 days ago [–]

Poll wording is nearly always biased in some way. What it's useful for is tracking trends, keeping the wording identical.

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