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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by Spivak on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:14PM (#25723448)
I mean we’re talking about 75 million voters and likely about 150 million people in total if everyone was surveyed. The idea that you can say anything meaningful about all Tump or Biden supporters is basically zero.

We’re necessarily talking about an absolutely insane and unhinged group of people. It doesn’t mean that you can go around encouraging and feeding that level of crazy and not expect bad things to happen.

Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by ianai on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:38PM (#25723662)
No, there’s no reason to think the sample size which votes is an unbiased reflection of the total sample. It’s very explicitly self selecting. Interesting area to consider though.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by vladTheInhaler on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:18PM (#25724428)
It's one of the most insidious problems with political polling - people who feel alienated and disconnected from society are seemingly less likely to respond to surveys so they inherently go undercounted. Kind of like the dark matter of the political world - we can tell that it's there, because we feel the effects, but we can't observe it directly.