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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by jobigoud on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:44AM (#20950767)
> generating a truly random dataset is really hard

IMO it's not just hard but impossible for polls to be unbiased, because people that don't like answering polls are never represented. If the subset of people that don't answer polls isn't itself following the same distribution over all possible opinions as the rest of the population the results are biased, and by definition we can't test for these correlations.

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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by blackflame7000 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @07:29PM (#20957592)
That's an excellent point. You could also add people that aren't contactable into that group.
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