Over three-fourths of Americans think there should be a maximum age limit for elected officials, according to a CBS News/YouGov survey.

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Over 75% of 2,335 voters (the amount of participants in this poll). These polls mean nothing.

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Says the guy that doesn’t understand statistics

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Not disagreeing, but it would not have taken much effort to copy/paste into the body:

Methodology: The poll surveyed 2,335 adults between Sept. 5-8 and has a margin of error of ±2.7 points.

Of course everyone should read the article but some people don’t.

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The pollsters told us Hillary was definitely gonna win. Campaigns increasingly have pollsters that create “third party” data that makes them look good. I don’t care what’s kosher in a statistics course, we’re seeing these polls because someone is paying a lot to make it all happen.

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No they didn’t. They showed it was more likely Hillary would win, not guaranteed.

And she did win the popular vote.

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Always love when people say the dumbest shit about statistics super confidently. 2,335 is a significantly larger sample size than you’d need to draw accurate enough conclusions

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