Interesting Links for 14-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. I no longer trust opinion polls

(tags:polls fail )

2. Secret Level - an anthology TV series based around various computer games

(tags:games TV animation viaSwampers )

3. The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916

(tags:communication history USA engineering )

4. AOC Shares Reasons Why Her Supporters Voted for Trump

(tags:voting usa doom )

5. Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now's the Time to Put Aside Our Differences

(tags:politics satire funny doom )

6. Baby red panda dies from firework stress, says Edinburgh Zoo

(tags:panda fireworks death )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Aaah, yes.

Sorry - I thought it was interesting because it was the host of Newsnight saying this. I think that polls are useful/interesting - it's just that a lot of people people are asking them to do something they aren't actually going to help that much with, and aren't paying any attention to the information that pollsters make available about levels of accuracy, etc.

So
a) I think that laypeople are likely to continue to be dissapointed by polls a fair amount of the time
b) I'm dissapointed that Victoria Derbyshire is surprised at poll performance because I'd hope she'd be more informed on their limitations
c) I think they're useful for giving a big picture, so long as you remain aware of their limitations

[mountainkiss]

(b) is a better way of phrasing what I was going after. Thank you. This is an unhelpful intervention on her part and does not advance the quality of discourse on this important topic.