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Does anyone else stop reading when you see the word "poll"?

Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:39 pm
Posted by Beessnax
Member since Nov 2015
9151 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:39 pm
My brain just automatically shuts down and moves on to something else when I read that word.

Im I alone in my experience?
Posted by Salmon
On the trails
Member since Feb 2008
83583 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:40 pm to
I stop reading as soon as I see "muh"
Posted by The First Cut
Member since Apr 2012
13979 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:40 pm to
If everyone agrees with you then there will be no responses because they would've stopped at your thread title.
Posted by Navytiger74
Member since Oct 2009
50458 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:41 pm to
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If everyone agrees with you then there will be no responses because they would've stopped at your thread title.

Posted by Beessnax
Member since Nov 2015
9151 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:43 pm to
Lol... Good one
Posted by EKG
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2010
44025 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:43 pm to
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I stop reading as soon as I see "muh"

This.
Same with the half-witted "Trumpkin."
I also confess to never reading threads/comments written by approx 3-5 specific posters.
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58048 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:44 pm to
I stop when I read," Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Huffington Post, etc.
Posted by The First Cut
Member since Apr 2012
13979 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:44 pm to
Muh, Trumpkin
Posted by Tiguar
Montana
Member since Mar 2012
33131 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:44 pm to
The only thing I genuinely dont read is when people make those like 5+ quote-point breakdowns to rebut someone's post.

Your opinion isn't that important, frick off
Posted by skiptumahloo
Member since Mar 2017
714 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:46 pm to
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My brain just automatically shuts down and moves on to something else when I read that word.

Im I alone in my experience?


You know what might help you learn more about how other people view this issue?

I'd tell you, but then your brain would shut down.
Posted by FooManChoo
Member since Dec 2012
41686 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 2:58 pm to
I usually stop reading when I see that. I don't care what polls say this early into a Presidency. Anything can happen on any given day to move those opinions one way or the other.
Posted by ShortyRob
Member since Oct 2008
82116 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:03 pm to
My thing with polls is twofold. First I don't actually care what polls say. Why should a poll affect my opinion on an issue? Second. While I am not one of these people who dismisses all of them is fake it would be dishonest to not recognize that there are a dream to driven polls.

But even the well-designed polls are clearly having challenges today. I suspect those challenges are driven by a variety of things. The methods of yesterday may not be as successful in today's more diverse Communications environment. Additionally the fact that American ideologies seem less well distributed then they were 25 years ago has to be affecting poll designers

I mean you can't ignore that the polls have found it more challenging lately to correctly predict things in politics

In any case I really don't see their usefulness for me as an individual. I don't decide things based on what everyone else thinks
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58048 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:07 pm to
Polls are heavily influenced by the wording of said poll. You can get almost any result you want if you word it right.
Posted by bbeck
Member since Dec 2011
14561 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:09 pm to
"Poll" should not exist after HRC's poll numbers were a giant flop.

I still laugh at this today.
Posted by KiwiHead
Auckland, NZ
Member since Jul 2014
27561 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:11 pm to
Karl Rove once said that he could get a poll conducted to say anything he wanted the poll to say.....the polling industries that do polls for particular policies/issues are in my experience and observation some of the most unreliable out there....they are almost the dictionary definition of fake news


You follow the polls and Hillary Clinton should be POTUS...instead she is walking around inn the woods near her house muttering to herself
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58048 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:13 pm to
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instead she is walking around inn the woods near her house muttering to herself


I laughed at this mental picture!
Posted by DerkaDerka
Member since Jul 2016
1075 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:17 pm to
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My brain just automatically shuts down and moves on to something else when I read that word. Im I alone in my experience?


You are not alone here. I do sometimes pop in to get an update on the propaganda though.
Posted by JawjaTigah
Bizarro World
Member since Sep 2003
22501 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:30 pm to
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My brain just automatically shuts down and moves on to something else when I read that word.
Or Toddy.
Posted by Navytiger74
Member since Oct 2009
50458 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:34 pm to
quote:

The only thing I genuinely dont read is when people make those like 5+ quote-point breakdowns to rebut someone's post.

Your opinion isn't that important, frick off


I'm going to stop doing this now.
Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
79235 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 3:35 pm to
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The only thing I genuinely dont read is when people make those like 5+ quote-point breakdowns to rebut someone's post.


It makes responses easier to digest
quote:


Your opinion isn't that important,


agree to disagree
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frick off

and also with you


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