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by hackinthebochs 1100 days ago
Very likely non-representative due to sampling bias and brigading.
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r/pics had 56,000 votes. That would be quite a lot of brigading... https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_o...
Prove it.
That's not how it works. If you want to claim some poll as evidence of user sentiment, you have to prove that it is representative.
Do you claim all polls are brigaded until disproven? Or those you don't like?
No, just the ones that people are strongly motivated to brigade, and ones where I saw discussion of discord groups where links to such polls were posted to mobilize brigaders. But none of that should matter. If you claim your poll is representative, you need to demonstrate it. Don't make claims that outpace your evidence. It's not that hard.