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We Found the One Group of Americans Who Are Most Likely to Spread Fake News
(www.politico.com)
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I appreciate them attempting to be scientific in a very messy space. But polling and surveys are notoriously unreliable for quite a few years now. There's many reasons for this, but one is pretty simple: people lie. Everyone is trying to play shitty little manipulation games on each other. It's a post-truth world, unfortunately.
You'd be surprised about how accurate scientific surveys are. The worst surveys are only 10% points off from real world data lol.
Unless you're gaming the survey like magazines do, real world studies aren't off by much.
https://www.pewresearch.org/methods/2016/05/02/assessing-the-accuracy-of-online-nonprobability-surveys/