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Old 02-15-2009, 04:13 PM   #2
classicman
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Originally Posted by Redux View Post
Classicman...with all due respect, your post suggest that you dont understand what is meant by the "data is weighted" after the sampling.
What I am saying is that neither do you or anyone else - They weight the polls to even out what is not even. That is my point.

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I dont claim to be an expert, but I do remember that from Polling 101.
I didn't take polling 101 - I don't recall it being offered where I got my degrees. Sounds like an interesting course though.
What I do remember about polling from college is how extremely difficult it is to get accurate information and how skewed the data therefore can be. They attempt to weigh/modify/alter the data to make it credible and make a prediction. Sometimes they are right and sometimes they are wrong.
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