Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results, especially for young people and Hispanic adults
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We examine how an opt-in poll may have unintentionally misled the public about the sensitive issue of Holocaust denial among young Americans.

There was an opt-in survey in from YouGov & The Economist that seemed to show a fifth of young Americans denied the Holocaust. The Economist ran a piece on it.

Well, Pew Research did a random sampling and found completely different and far less worrying results.

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  • iridaniotter [she/her, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 5,140 respondents is plus or minus 1.7 percentage points.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/02/29/policy-priorities-2024-methodology/