Results can be seen as raw data.
Originally Posted by oeb11
Hate to break it to you, but "results" are not "raw data" or vice versa.
"Results" are an interpretation of the compilation of the "raw data" and nothing more.
For the purpose of gathering reasonably reliable information for the purpose of marketing/decision-making, if in fact one wants to base one's decision-making on "polls," one must craft questions that are neutral and not worded in such a way as to suggest the answer desired by the pollster just as starters, and then one must seek a participant base that is also random and unbiased.
It has been mentioned in the past few years that pollsters are engaging people to assist in the polling who are using a response like: "None of your business" or "fuck you" or just a hangup as a response to the question for the purpose of gathering data, and that response is consistent with the questioner's bias. What one ends up getting are almost valueless "results"!
Then you get bullshit like there is going to be a "blue wave" ... and then when some "ripples" occur .... there is a redefinition of what "wave" means! The same with "a wall"!
For instance: Do you agree with Trump that we should build "a wall" along the Southern Border?
How about this one:
Do you agree that Trump should shut down the Government so he can get a wall built along the Southern Border?
And just to show how BIASED are the questions ..... here are some "background" FACTS ....
https://ktla.com/2018/10/11/mexico-b...d-in-calexico/
Construction workers last week put up the final panel of a new border barrier in Calexico, Calif., a project touted by President Trump as the first part of his promised wall between Mexico and the U.S.