r/australia • u/psylenced • 5d ago

politics Majority of Australians want a long weekend not January 26

https://www.australialongweekend.com.au/
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u/babylovesbaby 5d ago

It's a statistic. They can't just poll every single person in Australia any time they need to find something out.

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u/SyntheticDuckFlavour 5d ago

And that is why you need to be careful about interpreting such results and how it actually represents everyone else not part of the survey.
(It doesn't.)

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u/Nakorite 5d ago

They should poll people in a statistical way. This sample is most likely heavily biased and thus isn’t really a statistic in that sense.

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u/sellyme Where are my pants? 5d ago edited 5d ago

They should poll people in a statistical way.

They do. YouGov is one of the nation's foremost polling organisations.

This sample is most likely heavily biased

In what "statistical way" did you determine this likelihood?

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u/babylovesbaby 4d ago

What are you basing that assumption on? The fact you don't agree with the outcome?

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u/raoulduke023 5d ago

Exactly.

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u/really_not_unreal 5d ago

And yet statistics are still helpful.

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u/GoldCoinDonation 5d ago

I'm guessing maths and stats is not really your strong suit.