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‘It’s a garbage poll’: Danielle Smith criticizes survey suggesting Canadians support retaliatory tariffs on oil and gas (www.ctvnews.ca)
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The survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, found more than two-thirds of people in the Prairies support putting tariffs on oil, natural gas and electricity.

“Well, I think it’s a garbage poll,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.

“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dani smith is a traitorous cunt!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree but I still don't trust polls. Any polls. Even the non-garbage ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, polls are untrustworthy at best, outright manipulative at worst. It's not like they ask every person in the population. How questions are worded matters nearly as much as who's answering. And, like any kind of statistical data, the answers to a poll can be twisted to say almost anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's okay to just say you don't understand how statistics works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

While I'm not extremely well versed in statistics, I'm just a lowly Stone Mason after all, I believe that it's quite common knowledge that how data is collected and presented can easily twist what it says.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/socialpolicy/2020/11/04/how-misused-statistics-can-harm-democracy/

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4844680-political-misinformation-data/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457289.2020.1740716#abstract

https://bigthink.com/the-present/consequences-of-political-polling/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Much like Cardinal Richelieu said, anything can be twisted to your desires, but assuming the only accurate polling is complete polling is incorrect and infeasible if not impossible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I get that, wasn't really what I was trying to say, but looking at what I wrote.... definitely comes off that way...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Alright, that's fair. Here's a quote that kind of meets in the middle: Some people use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post - not for illumination but for support.