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Originally Posted by jayswin
You can't say with a straight face that there's a bunch of Gulutzan supporters that will read the thread with the poll, but won't take two seconds to click for their vote because they don't want change?
You're thinking of any number of polls in the real world where people need to actually go somewhere or be angry enough to seek out a poll and vote.
This is a poll of people who are literally all here reading a handful of hockey topics. No way you convince me that 500 posters responded (150 of which voted to keep him) and yet the Gulutzan supporters are vastly underrepresented. That's absurd.
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I'm not just commenting on this particular subject. It's well established that when you run a poll where voters have to actively vote (as opposed to a random poll by a pollster) you get results skewed in favour of the position which is more activist and less status quo. In this case, those who actively want GG fired are more likely to vote than those who don't and those who are ambivalent or undecided.
ETA: its called self-selection bias.