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Tue Mar 13, 2012, 10:26 AM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

11. It's on the shelf, visible from where I'm sitting, but I haven't read it in years.

That's just how push polls work. If you haven't seen the exact poll question and you haven't seen the demographic composition of the study group and you don't know what "n" is, the percentages are meaningless because they have no context. Oh, did you know that 74.3% of statistics are made up on the spot?

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"Hi, I'm (some name) from (some neutral sounding company) conduction an independent poll... [View all]	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	OP
When they "push poll" you--push back.	MADem	Mar 2012	#1
LOLOL! Then YOU would get the click (but they'd still mark "very more likely")	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#3
After a while, you'd dishearten the questioner!	MADem	Mar 2012	#9
I got a saleshole from India asking if I had smoke detectors in the home. I answered, "What's that?	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#12
COOL!!!!	MADem	Mar 2012	#13
That was Tom Mabe	csziggy	Mar 2012	#14
I'm thinking that when he suggests talking with his supervisor...	LiberalFighter	Mar 2012	#18
I only use APC. I've got the larger units (1300ish) by the main computers, 500s for the laptops,	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#17
It's something I have been considering...I think I may start "window shopping" online! nt	MADem	Mar 2012	#20
The sales can really take a chunk out of the price.	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#21
I'll start looking! It does seem like a good idea...! nt	MADem	Mar 2012	#22
When you get it, hook up the battery and let it charge (unused) for 24 hours.	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#23
Thanks for the tip--I'm always a bit behind the curve on that stuff! nt	MADem	Mar 2012	#24
Oh, you'll have to slide the battery cover off and connect one side - there may be sparks.	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#25
Wow, how fortunate for your niece that they got the thing before the power went out.	MADem	Mar 2012	#26
The worst thing about it that the damn things beep when the power is off.	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#27
I only get the ones from India telling me my computer is infected with a virus.	csziggy	Mar 2012	#15
Funny but your input will not move their needle one tenth of a percentage point...	rfranklin	Mar 2012	#2
Agreed. "A man hears what he wants to hear and he disregards the rest."	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#4
"All lies and jest".....	lastlib	Mar 2012	#7
"Lie de Lie. Lie de lie lie lie de lie."	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#10
"stomps on kittens in blue high heel pumps"	Enrique	Mar 2012	#5
You really think Mr. Frothy would vote for Mittens?	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#6
Sounds like youve been reading some Al Franken	Proud Liberal Dem	Mar 2012	#8
It's on the shelf, visible from where I'm sitting, but I haven't read it in years.	HopeHoops	Mar 2012	#11
Ha-ha. I tend to believe it	Proud Liberal Dem	Mar 2012	#19
You have to take control at the VERY BEGINNING	saras	Mar 2012	#16

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