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Re:Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada truc... by scythe on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:58PM (#30224513)
>why answer honestly with Canada’s level of restrictions and penalties?

Surely you jest. Polls are anonymous. And even if the security is bad, nobody is scrutinizing IP logs of poll respondents. Maybe in Kazakhstan or something, but freedom in the West has not fallen that far.

People do lie on polls, of course, but it's usually about self-expression, not self-protection. I'd imagine that vaccinated truckers are more likely to report antagonism to vaccine mandates by lying about being unvaccinated vs. the reverse.

Re:Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada truc... by s1artibartfast on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:08PM (#30224629)
You also have to consider that unvaccinated answering the poll honestly would be admitting to something that puts their livelihood on the line. I imagine that a disproportionate number would refuse to respond at all.
Re:Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada truc... by gjsman-1000 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:16PM (#30224739)
Imagine if I ran a nationwide poll asking if you’d ever had a felony conviction.

I bet the numbers for that poll would be way lower than the real statistics.

People don’t answer honestly on polls if they feel there is any way (even a perception) that this could come back and hurt them.

Re:Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada truc... by s1artibartfast on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:29PM (#30224880)
Or if you asked if you got away with a felony crime!
Re:Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada truc... by gjsman-1000 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:05PM (#30224604)
This poll was not conducted online.
Re:Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada truc... by lowlevel on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:32PM (#30224914)
And probably had only answers that supported whatever hypothesis they were trying to assert.