Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:26:10 UTC No. 16592297

Knowing what popular opinion on things is useful to some people, and wrangling thousands of people to answer polls does require someone to put in work.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:52 UTC No. 16593520

>>16592297
No, I mean when they say "we asked" or "gathered data" or "we made a poll", how do you prove any of that? If I will just make a paper where I will declare that 5000 people said they like vanilla ice cream more than chocolate, what support documents do I need to provide? How do I prove that I actually asked 5000 people and not randomly generated the answers? Do I need to provide their names and phone numbers? You can fake that too.

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:47:16 UTC No. 16593770

>>16593520
>what support documents do I need to provide?
The actual surveys people did, with their info, signature and contact information?
>Do I need to provide their names and phone numbers? You can fake that too.
And what exactly do you do when a institutional review board decides to contact randomly selected 100 of these 5000 people and it turns out all of their phone numbers were fake or they deny taking your survey?

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:18:16 UTC No. 16593847

So there is some form of provability, alright.
What if I will ask only people who are biased? Like I want to confirm some political argument and I only ask people who are willing to agree with me, and the ones who don't I don't include in the paper. Is there any protection from that?

Anonymous at Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:19:17 UTC No. 16593853

>>16593847
this
>>16593770
to this