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Repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell' to trigger draft

Most polls use phones, which are a pretty reliable. Most people have phones and choose to answer them. If they don't, you can use alternates also selected at random. Combined with other techniques, the pollsters can make the sample pretty damn close to pure random.

But if a random sample poll can't be valid, as you noted, no poll can. Including the one from the magazine.

that's rather my point; rassales claim would require delegitimizing all polling in order to justify ignoring this one.
 
that's rather my point; rassales claim would require delegitimizing all polling in order to justify ignoring this one.

No, I think you would. But never mind. Whether or not any polls can be valid, the point is that Navy Pride's certainly isn't.
 
antecdotal evidence remains important because it often provides background that is missing in the raw numbers.

but yeah, in an organization of over a million; the 180 or so guys that you spend your tour with aren't necessecarily representative.
 
antecdotal evidence remains important because it often provides background that is missing in the raw numbers.

Sometimes that's true. But it can't be used to represent the opinions of everyone, such as "80% of people believe x".
 
No, you don't know how they feel. You only know how the ones you've personally talked to feel. I doubt you've talked to every sailor in the Navy.

That is ridiculous but I have talked to a cross section of Navy menand it tells me how they feel on the subject......
 
That is ridiculous but I have talked to a cross section of Navy menand it tells me how they feel on the subject......

Yes Navy....saying that you speaking to a few Navy men and saying that it reflects the general consensus...is ridiculous.
 
No, I think you would. But never mind. Whether or not any polls can be valid, the point is that Navy Pride's certainly isn't.


CP you know what poll he is talking about right? In fact it is the one I borrowed from you.........
 
CP you know what poll he is talking about right? In fact it is the one I borrowed from you.........

You mean it isn't the one that you mistakenly posted that said that the military overwhelmingly favors ending the ban. BTW thanks for posting that one Navy.
 
Yes Navy....saying that you speaking to a few Navy men and saying that it reflects the general consensus...is ridiculous.

Dak I thought I left you in the basement........You missed you calling DD..you should have been a PVT. Dick........:2wave:
 
CP you know what poll he is talking about right? In fact it is the one I borrowed from you.........

The poll you originally posted was not a scientific poll. The one I posted was. I think CP knows which ones we're both talking about.
 
that's rather my point; rassales claim would require delegitimizing all polling in order to justify ignoring this one.
That's not at all true, and I have yet to hear an argument in support of such a conclusion. "All polls" are not conducted on an entirely voluntary basis, requiring participants to shift media in order to respond.
 
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