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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They should be controlling for those things

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What does that mean? You want them to just throw out data that they don't like?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It would be very rare not to do so.

Most poll results give the margins of error of the method(s) used. No idea if this one did or not, but 2% and 3% don't seem dramatic enough to not be explicable by margin of error issues.