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Originally Posted by Rerun
Really? Someone calls me up and asks me to participate in a poll... but I'm just an average Joe and really not interested in politics and I figure I've got better things to do than answer a bunch of silly questions.... so I say no and hang up. The pollster calls the next number and gets someone who is dissatisfied with the way things are being run.. so he says yes because he wants to get a chance to put his 2 cents worth in and perhaps change the way things are being done by increasing the % of voter dissatisfaction?
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With a statistically significant sample size, effects like you described are eliminated.