greyling22
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I don't trust surveys (especially regarding guns because) because of the scientific principle of "who responds to a survey?!"
If a surveyor calls me: 1st, I'm not picking up an unknown number. 2nd, an online poll is just as bad. Forking over an ip address is the same as a phone number. 3rd, i'm not answering personal questions. I'm not giving an income level, voting preference, names of my children, etc. If I won't give a stranger what kind of chips I prefer, do you think I'm going to answer questions about how many and what kind of guns I have? Nobody else I can think of does either.
Call it the principle of privacy bias in surveys maybe?
Heck, on the census I just write "4 people live here" and turn it in.
If a surveyor calls me: 1st, I'm not picking up an unknown number. 2nd, an online poll is just as bad. Forking over an ip address is the same as a phone number. 3rd, i'm not answering personal questions. I'm not giving an income level, voting preference, names of my children, etc. If I won't give a stranger what kind of chips I prefer, do you think I'm going to answer questions about how many and what kind of guns I have? Nobody else I can think of does either.
Call it the principle of privacy bias in surveys maybe?
Heck, on the census I just write "4 people live here" and turn it in.
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