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by bombcar 1131 days ago
One of the things that good surveys do is explain their methodology for factoring out bullshitters, because some relatively noticeable percentage of people who will respond to a survey do it maliciously/humorously.
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Don't forget "accidentally" particularly with the "push 1 for X" "push 2 for Y" polls. Good pollsters have ways of polling for things that are well under 10%, but it's a non-trivial problem to solve.