I talked statistics today.
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How is it that researchers on the Internet have not figured out that with the likes of Reddit & 4Chan out there, *ANY SURVEY* done using the Internet as a primary medium is going to be suspect at the very least, and absolutely *BONED* most likely.
These are people who will not limit themselves to rigging the winner – they’ll rig the whole *LIST* of winners to make an acrostic! To create a legitimate online poll or survey of some kind takes extraordinary meticulous work, in selection of sample, in verifying that responders are from the selected sample, and in general that you don’t get *COMPLETELY* shown up when your front page ends up showing:
4Chan Wuz Heer!
And now, a list of the private information of everyone who participated,
complete with how they voted!