What Facebook does when something's rotten

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4 pointsmattmaroon3 comments

Haha,

Wow. Tremendous lack of research. How the fuck can you poll 1500 people and just plug it in as 60% are considering leaving? That's like polling 1500 Americans and deducing that 60% of all Americans are ready to leave the country.

That's pretty much how all polling works and it's surprisingly accurate when done well. If your sample reflects the general population 1500 can be more than enough to get a really good picture.

That's a big if.

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