sycasey said:
BearlySane88 said:
sycasey said:
BearlySane88 said:
sycasey said:
DiabloWags said:
FROM NATE SILVER:
Trump Approval Rating: Latest Polls | Silver Bulletin
Rule of thumb: if the poll is from Rasmussen or Trafalgar, chances are it's the lone outlier with sunnier results for Trump.
Then the same can be said for every left leaning poll lol. What's your point?
What about cnn and pew which showed polling for Biden at dismal numbers? Should we discredit those too?
No, I think Biden legitimately had poor approval at the end of his term.
Take an average of all the polls, as Nate Silver does. That's the best snapshot.
Biden had poor approval almost his entire presidency. After Afghanistan, it was all bad.
The snapshot is good in theory if you have the same number of left leaning and right leaning polls represented
Yeah, that's the point of creating an average of all the polls.
Yes, I understand that. My critic is that if you average 10 left leaning polls and 5 right leaning polls, the end result is skewed left. I don't know the answer, is it an even split left/right in his average?
To be fair, I put little weight in polls either way. They are a barometer but they certainly never tell the whole story. Data analysis is as flawed as it is beautiful
