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Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by salawat on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @06:13PM (#32173119)
>and results are statistically adjusted for non-response bias etc.

...Can you explain this?

My brain translates that to "We fudge the numbers because we know dome portion of them are being deceptive."

I'm pretty sure that isn't what that's supposed to mean is it?

Re:Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @06:19PM (#32173169)
That sounds like they have a model of population demographics and try to “correct” their sample for various biases that effect likelihood of reaching and getting a response from people by reweighting the actual sample to match the expected demographics.

If actual views on the target issues are predicted well by demographics and independent of the response biases beyond their correlation with the demographics, this should work well.

If they aren't, though, this potentially magnifies the impact on the overall result of subsamples that are potentially most unreliable because of small size.