LKS and polls: a democracy of opinion
A quick reply to LKS’s recent post on the efficacy of online polls, here. My comment is reproduced here and I will be checking back for other comments on LKS’s post to update this post should it be required, just to keep the conversation going.
A short note on online-polls. I had said something about this earlier, here. I really do think that polling is a small concern, but an important one nonetheless depending on the uses to which the said poll may be put to. Garnering opinions is a tricky business, and there are so many ways to cast information in a negative or favourable light, depending on your party political affiliation, or even depending on your beliefs: it’s always a matter of interpretation, and the “opinion on the ground” such as it is, can become a political tool.
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