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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

StatsForLefties has dreadful form for misrepresenting stats, taking data out of context, and general poor practice. I'd not choose to follow them unless you actively want to be misinformed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh really? Do you have any examples maybe? I'd genuinely like to know as I usually go to them to quickly look at how polls are doing sometimes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly they're a running gag on a lot of politics discussion spots. Without digging too hard, here's a recent poll they shared from Freshwater Strategy, a "reputation management" (astroturfing) company who aren't a British Polling Council member. And then they've run election forecasts based on this gibberish. Basically they'll run anything that looks bad for Starmer's Labour. And even though there's no shortage of that, they'll plumb the depths to find the least credible stuff.

They then use their "trusted source of stats" status to broadcast fairly unhinged views, such as flytipping is fine actually and criminalising it is an affront to the working poor.

TBH looking at single polls is an exercise in futility and you'll be trying to draw out data from the noise. Much better to bookmark Politico's Poll of Polls and check in on it occasionally.