The survey, conducted by Nanos Research for CTV News and The Globe and Mail, found more than two-thirds of people in the Prairies support putting tariffs on oil, natural gas and electricity.
“Well, I think it’s a garbage poll,” Smith said at an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.
“What if we were to ask Albertans or Canadians this: ‘Would you support export tariffs if it meant the U.S. would retaliate by shutting off Line 5 and leaving Ontario and Quebec without gasoline or aviation fuel at all?’ I think you’d get a different answer.”
While I’m not extremely well versed in statistics, I’m just a lowly Stone Mason after all, I believe that it’s quite common knowledge that how data is collected and presented can easily twist what it says.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/socialpolicy/2020/11/04/how-misused-statistics-can-harm-democracy/
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4844680-political-misinformation-data/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457289.2020.1740716#abstract
https://bigthink.com/the-present/consequences-of-political-polling/
Absolutely. Much like Cardinal Richelieu said, anything can be twisted to your desires, but assuming the only accurate polling is complete polling is incorrect and infeasible if not impossible.
I get that, wasn’t really what I was trying to say, but looking at what I wrote… definitely comes off that way…
Alright, that’s fair. Here’s a quote that kind of meets in the middle: Some people use statistics the way a drunk uses a lamp post - not for illumination but for support.