‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority

Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by hrktb on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:56AM (#24897551)

I am curious about how do you see street corner enquetes and random telephone sampling before SNS.

Thoses enquetes were done on somewhate crowded yet non busy places for convenience, and tended to sample a specific part of the population: e.g. people going to shopping districts at off hours, or people coming out of church for the most biased samplings.

Telephone checks were similar in that you had a very high percentage of at home caregivers responding to them.

Do you the past journalistic methods as that much more sophisticated than nowadays ?

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Re:‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study by another-dave on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:31PM (#24897963)

I wouldn't say I think that they're more sophisticated but conducting a telephone sample, or doing a vox-pop on street corners with a TV camera requires more effort than just typing a hashtag into a searchbox and pulling out a few responses. I think the lower friction of skimming social media, plus the added pressure of having more air-time / articles to fill means there's an over-reliance on it in a way that there wasn't before.

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