Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 5, 2024
In the same way as "the cloud is just someone else's computer" - "AI decisions are just someone else's prejudices".
Show threadSteve LeachMar 5, 2024

@Loukas Being as we are in an election year and a bizarrely polarized and dis-informed political climate, this immediately made me think:

"Polls are just an average of everyone else's prejudices".

Show threadAriaflameMar 5, 2024
@stevenaleach @Loukas Oh not everyone's. Judging by the way they do polls it's an increasingly unrepresentative sample.
Show threadPatrick Morris Miller
@ariaflame @stevenaleach @Loukas Polls only measure the opinions of people who actually answer the phone when it doesn't recognize the number.
Mar 5, 2024 at 5:21pmWeb
Show threadSteve LeachMar 5, 2024
@kentenmakto @ariaflame @Loukas I was referring to the polls as in elections, polls as in surveys are more problematic - how do you reach the average person in the modern world? Most of us don't have landlines, and I know I personally don't answer calls from unknown numbers. But yea, analogies to bias in sample selection apply to polling more directly.
Show threadAriaflameMar 6, 2024
@stevenaleach @kentenmakto @Loukas It's also a problem when you have a country where voting is not considered a duty or required and so many people are apathetic.