>>8797116 LB
The only “proper polls” are those commissioned for internal use by parties and campaigns, which they NEVER reveal to the outside world. Those for public consumption today are really intended to shape, rather than reflect opinion. Publishing or instigating polls is therefore a propaganda exercise, so interfering with quickie online polls is worthwhile, regardless of their statistical invalidity. Most people have no conception of statistical validity in the social sciences anyway, because “it’s all just your opinion, man.” We gots to fight back against da machine however we can; and tipping silly unscientific polls indicates strength in numbers, even if only at the subliminal level.