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

I stop reading as soon as I see "muh"

I stop when I read," Washington Post, New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, Huffington Post, etc.

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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?

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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.

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

"Poll" should not exist after HRC's poll numbers were a giant flop.

I still laugh at this today.

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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?

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You are not alone here. I do sometimes pop in to get an update on the propaganda though.

I do too. They are nothing but propaganda

I only check out the College Football polls. And when Boise State starts out 7-0 with Montana as their toughest foe and they get ranked in the top 20 Zach gets the high blood and needs to refill the Rx.

I think you have a good idea.

Didn't read your thread. Just replied and down voted instead.