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sethammons 4 hours ago

That a third or more still support him seems crazy to me.

nilamo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But it's an approval rating. Of the people surveyed. Who chose to reply.

A lot of extrapolations are made out of the 10 people who responded.

rfrey 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You do not believe in statistics as a discipline?

nilamo 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't think most polling qualifies as statistics, without providing info like selection criteria or number of respondents. Otherwise we'll walk right into another situation like when Trump won an election while polling in near last place.

Or maybe I want something a little more significant than "we asked around the newsroom, and 35% of fox news reporters approve of the current administration". Cool, thanks, but that's not helpful or even a useful datapoint.