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Originally Posted by strombad
So any old poll is good enough huh? You're not much into being critical of data? Just whatever is put in front of you is good enough to eat?
To be abundantly clear, my problem is not with polls. Polls are valuable, polls can provide insight, polls can act as a small sliver of popular opinion. My problem is with the main polls being bandied about. They made no effort to poll strictly Native Americans (or Native Americans at all) and thus are useless in an attempt to use them as a proper representation regarding the opinion of those people who actually matter.
I'm capable of understanding just fine, I'd honestly like you to attempt to explain to me just what you were getting at with the first part of your post.
EDIT: is this image better? (You're still using "cherry picking" wrong)
Or this one?
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Is there any reason you continue to dismiss the validity of the annenberg institue poll despite it explicitly stating that only respondents who identify themselves as Native were polled? The only critique that has been brought up is "how" Native they are (aka status, membership, or self identifying), not if they are Native. I am absolutely willing to acknowledge that some natives want it changed, but there is no statistics at all to back up the statement that a majority want it changed. Nowhere in your article does it state they all want it changed, it just says that they will be attending. I would much rather base my argument off of a quantitative poll which did put an effort forward to select only Natives instead of a meeting where we haven't had a poll taken among the leaders.