Subj : Re: In the bag
To   : JEFF THIELE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Sep 24 2022 10:08:00

> On 23 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
>  MP> > Also, there's more than polling than just asking a bunch of people some
>  MP> > questions ad adding up the answers. For one thing, they're corrected fo
>  MP> > ideological bias.
>  MP> How do they do that?  How would you know that the "correction" is not
>  MP> actually the result of the bias of the poll taker/corrector?

> They weight the answers. In the most simple cases, they ask those polled to
> self-identify as Democrat, Republican, or independent. Then they weight each
> group's answers to what is known about the actual
> Democrat/Republican/independent makeup of the US. If Republicans are
> under-represented, then the answers from Republicans are given added weight
> to correct for the bias.

OK, that makes sense.  :)


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