Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
by snovv_crash on Friday August 21, 2020 @05:56PM
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So what it it wasn't random, but captured 90% of the population?
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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
by kube-system on Friday August 21, 2020 @06:04PM
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Where are you seeing 90%?
The poll itself says 59% of the 2.3m respondents were people who voted in the election.
That's 1.4m people, which is 15% of their population and 21% of their eligible voting population.
Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
by freeone3000 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @12:08AM
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Forget the percentage - there are more people who said they voted for the second-place contender than the second-place contender's official vote count.
Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests
by kube-system on Saturday August 22, 2020 @01:36AM
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Yes, clearly the evidence demonstrates the election results are less than trustworthy.
But that’s not what I was taking issue with. Above, I was disputing the claim that a large sample size “guarantees correctness”
Likely, neither this Telegram poll nor the election are statistically sound in their results, for different reasons.
I am not saying that the Telegram poll has to be statistically sound to be valuable evidence.