New CBS News polling shows many Americans believe their standard of living is worse than their parents. The poll found people are feeling deep impacts of inf...
I’m sure it’s true, but do we poll over everything now? I feel like there are better, more scientific sources to use than a CBS poll.
I just saw a poll about Bluetooth headphones being unhealthy for you earlier so I just feel like this in general and am using this as a place to put my thoughts tbh.
I just feel like we are putting to much faith into opinions of the “masses”, and believing what we read online.
A lot of things can be actually proven in other ways.
Polls are important especially in economics because people’s opinions matter. Everyone thinking the economy is bad will cause a recession even if there isn’t an economic reason for one otherwise.
But this is also another volunteer, likely anonymous, YouGov internet poll that people are taking as fact again. Lemmy is flooded with them and they have no value
Here’s another YouGov poll post from a few days ago if you want to read discussion why they are/these posts are clickbait trash
I’m sure it’s true, but do we poll over everything now? I feel like there are better, more scientific sources to use than a CBS poll.
I just saw a poll about Bluetooth headphones being unhealthy for you earlier so I just feel like this in general and am using this as a place to put my thoughts tbh.
I just feel like we are putting to much faith into opinions of the “masses”, and believing what we read online.
A lot of things can be actually proven in other ways.
Polls are important especially in economics because people’s opinions matter. Everyone thinking the economy is bad will cause a recession even if there isn’t an economic reason for one otherwise.
True.
But this is also another volunteer, likely anonymous, YouGov internet poll that people are taking as fact again. Lemmy is flooded with them and they have no value
Here’s another YouGov poll post from a few days ago if you want to read discussion why they are/these posts are clickbait trash
https://lemmy.world/post/9334610