Good question. I find many, if not most, polls to be constructed in bad faith, designed to get the answers they want, or at least to avoid answers they don't want. The other proportion of polls is poorly constructed, full of assumptions about those polled, or what answers are even possible.
Polls also reduce the nuance of situations vastly.
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I fill out as many polls as I can. I lie on them. Polling no longer yields accurate information.
You're not wrong that intentional bad actors can spoil institutions, I don't see the institution as the problem there though
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Good question. I find many, if not most, polls to be constructed in bad faith, designed to get the answers they want, or at least to avoid answers they don't want. The other proportion of polls is poorly constructed, full of assumptions about those polled, or what answers are even possible.
Polls also reduce the nuance of situations vastly.
I'm frustrated by polls, in short.