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By forming my opinions on small sample groups of non-randomly selected people being asked loaded questions?
Sorry, my bad. That's polling companies that hide behind the legitimacy of statistics.
this is why understanding sample size, selection bias, and confidence intervls matters - the difference between actual statistics and the marketing version that gets passed off as "research".