Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can

Re:Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can by koboll on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:24PM (#21993552)

With any public opinion survey there's going to be a certain amount of "noise" results. You can't _force_ people to give serious answers. But if your methodology is sound (Morning Consult's certainly is) then they will tend to cancel each other out.

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Re:Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can by greeneggs on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:49PM (#21993846)

You can't force people to give serious answers, but you can incentivize them to do so. My guess is that the results would be dramatically better if the respondents were paid for correct answers.

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Re:Can You Locate Iran? Few Voters Can by koboll on Thursday January 09, 2020 @12:46PM (#22003515)

That would incentivize respondents to cheat and look it up. I think you'd find that would make the results much worse.

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