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Even though most voters say that the case against the former president is “strong,” they don’t want to see him serving jail time

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[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 92 points 2 years ago (32 children)

There is no way that 53% is correct. Is everyone really that fucking dumb

[–] Flaky_Fish69@kbin.social 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (25 children)

here's the actual poll

they sampled an incredibly small sample size. It's extremely easy to get fucked up results from assuming that you can make a poll representative of Americans as a whole. Like. where I live... most people in the state want him locked up (or you know. burned at the stake.) But, you go an hour out the cities and even the democrats there would be likely to express some hesitancy. Because it's trump country out there.

and that assumes the poll wasn't meant to get this result (for example polling in ways that get maybe more conservative democrats. or people simply lying and saying they're democrats.)

[–] RyanHakurei@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

Actually the sample size checks out. I love it when people see "Smol number not as big as big number, therefore sample size bad" and I am going to pull a very elitist argument here and say that people at Harvard University likely know more about polling than you do, just saying.

[–] soratoyuki@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not enough people took a statistics class in school and it shows.

[–] RyanHakurei@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I imagine with the safe-spacification of college statistics is no longer a required elective in many programs.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's kind of ironic you've gone from defending Harvard to shitting on colleges in a span of just two comments.

[–] Hellsadvocate@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

Typically anyone with an anime girl profile pic is going to be a nut job in some way or another.

[–] RyanHakurei@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The fact that people who still do take stats classes likely know what they're talking about is not contradictory to the point that these classes may no longer be required in most degrees. Hope this helps! Try not to blow a head gasket trying to process this info.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Also ironic that I was the one person who defended your original comment.

[–] yunggwailo@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

Sounds like someone who definitely went to college and knows the typical graduation requirements

[–] ThisIsMyNewAccount@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Dumbest fucking take. Can’t even imagine what was going through your head as you were writing that.

For your own sake, seek out better friends and media.

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