Polling is full of frauds
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I'm a pollster and this is getting ridiculous.
Cardboard cutout fans populate the audience during a major league baseball game during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images; Illustration by The Argument/ChatGPT) Over the 10 years I’ve been a pollster, my field has been collapsing. It used to be that the industry standard was calling people on their landlines. As response rates went into free fall, pollsters largely switched to web polls, where companies recruit people to serve as survey takers on online panels, usually in exchange for money. The panels are then weighted to bring the sample in line with the…
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