r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/Confident-Shoulder96 • 17d ago

Political™ This Spells Disaster for American Education

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I am sure that he actually *ment* to spell it that way.

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u/OkIndustry6159 17d ago

This is disingenuous and I will correct it every time. It's not 50%. Its 33%. That's it! That's all it took to take down the US.

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u/drubus_dong 17d ago

No, it is not. The voting population is a sample for the overall population. And it's way beyond representative. If I had said that 50% voted for Trump, that would have been incorrect. But I didn't say that. I said 50% think he's a good president. Which is extremely well founded in a survey that had a sample that covered over 60% of the entire population.

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u/OzzyFinnegan 17d ago

Which survey is that?

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u/drubus_dong 17d ago

The election

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u/Knight0fdragon 17d ago

Not voting is a choice. You can’t say that a person who didn’t vote was going to vote either way because their vote was not to vote. You are cherry picking data to get results you want.

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u/drubus_dong 17d ago

I didn't say that. Your problem is that you don't know how surveys work. You should look that up. It's an important thing to know.

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u/Knight0fdragon 17d ago

You should look up how surveys work, only 77 million of the 245 million eligible voters voted for Trump. Last I checked, 77/245 is not anywhere near 50%.

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u/AdministrativeCar868 17d ago

u/drubus_dong is correct here. The sample size is large enough to represent the entire population. However, that is only accurate for the time of the election. Sentiment could have changed since then.

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u/fattest-fatwa 17d ago

100% of people participated in a landline phone poll said they owned a landline telephone. Ergo, 100% of the population owns a landline telephone.

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u/drubus_dong 17d ago

An election doesn't ask you whether you voted. It asks you who you want in power. That analogy makes no sense.

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u/fattest-fatwa 16d ago

People who participate in presidential general elections are not a random sample. There are numerous reasons for this. You don’t understand polling or sampling. Which is why the analogy didn’t make sense to you. You cannot extrapolate the results of the presidential election to the broader population. You should talk less and read more.

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u/drubus_dong 16d ago

Well, then explain what sampling bias you suspect and why. Just claiming it's there doesn't do anything

Also, be somewhat honest to yourself. That analogy is dumb as fuck.

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u/Knight0fdragon 17d ago

Dong is not correct JFC. The election IS the entire population (of course we are talking about eligible voters). If 40% chose not to vote, you just cant claim they think trump is a good president based on those that did vote.

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u/drubus_dong 17d ago

I already explained that there is a distinction between a pool and an election. To the other guy who complained. You must have read that.