Are Polls Meaningless?

[Youphemism]

This seems like an important question. Luckily, we have just the tool here to resolve it.

(As long as you're already here, an item from the "Department of Shameless Self-Promotion": I enjoyed the recent photo caption contest and would like to invite you to take a peek at this... I've played it a few times and it doesn't get any less funny to me -- but I'm biased. Make sure you click the link under the photo to hear the caption.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6140403&mesg_id=6141082

[MercutioATC]

1. Pertinent polls can be semi-reliable.

Polls in which the questions are leading or those which fail to account for important variables, not so much.

[CreekDog]

2. except for yours which is scientifically more true than truth itself

polls are, um, i'll get back to ya. :dilemma:

[99th_Monkey]

3. Yes, polls are meaningless, unless they support my favorite issues and/or candidate. ~nt~

[Raejeanowl]

4. Yes, Especially This One n/t

[TahitiNut]

5. Hey! My stepfather was a Pole!

:grr:

[izzie]

6. I do not know. I do not vote by what they say and do not much

think they get it right but if others do then may be they are important.

[Unbowed]

7. Polls are like horoscopes...meaningless unless they tell you something you want to hear. n/t

[Raejeanowl]

9. Now, There's A Nugget Of Actual Wisdom

Congrats.

:applause:

[dascientist]

8. This poll is meaningless (j/k)