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this is my question about all the models and predictions. People are talking like these things are describing reality, but if polls are now based on "the demographic that still picks up on unknown numbers" then polls are no longer connected to the world.
0.7% response rates are how things like this are possible. They’re polling people in the 99% percentile of the demographic “Answers spam calls and clicks on links in random spam texts”
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Who is clicking a link like this? Nobody normal, that’s for sure!!
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(I’m a political polling pervert, though, so Ed’s point stands!)
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How do you know that text is from who they say it’s from!!!
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ah, let me just click an unknown link in 2024
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Amazo.ncom says my package is waiting to be picked up Joseph what am I supposed to do
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yesterday the post office texted me from a Pakistan country code to let me know there were problems with my package and they need more info from me
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We need closure on this anecdote Joseph, was your package OK?
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I got an email from "me" letting me know my recent crypto order had shipped, and was also being processed at the same time. The "mailing address" was the nonsensical jumble of "Kling Ca Jacksonville North Lake Filomenaberg Virginia USA"
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I work as a postman and can confirm that sometimes the company satnav takes you somewhere that is nowhere near the address. Never Karachi as of yet, but I don't necessarily rule it out.
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First pay off your Veriz.on bill before they shut off your service.
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No because I just won three months of Net.flix that I have to redeem
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I don’t! And it has probably led to my number ending up on all sorts of other spamming accounts. Mostly I like to see what their survey design is like… I suppose I should fill it out and not submit from now on
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they said I would get a free iPad tho
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Fwiw the only pollster to get both rounds of the Chicago Mayoral election was a pollster who uses texts.
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I've also literally never gotten one of these.