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British public thinks supporting Ukraine is more important than good relations with USA

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British public thinks supporting Ukraine is more important than good relations with USA - Feddit UK

Source is here: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/02/20/c33bd/1 [https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/02/20/c33bd/1] That source allows you to see the results according to political affiliation. Pluralities of supporters of the Conservatives, Labour, and Lib Dems think that supporting Ukraine is more important. The exception is Reform UK, whose supporters think that good relations with the USA are more important than supporting Ukraine.

Show threadLifterFeb 22, 2025
I see YouGov: I downvote
Show threadRunawayFixer
Why? Do they have credibility or other issues?
Feb 22, 2025 at 11:18amWeb
Show threadLifterFeb 22, 2025

Yes, they only attract a certain kind of users (i.e. easily tricked by “bonus points” systems). It’s an opt in rather than a random selection. Even if they claim to use common strategies to spread out the responses statistically, there is no way it is accurate.

YouGov bad: undark.org/2024/…/trolls-polls-survey-science/

YouGov good: blogs.lse.ac.uk/…/poll-of-polls-mrp/

Survey Trolls, Opt-In Polls, and the New Era of Survey Science

As polling methods evolve, it can be hard to distinguish solid findings from those that dissolve under scrutiny.

Undark Magazine
Show threadRunawayFixerFeb 22, 2025

Many thanks for the links, the first article was very interesting, I don’t agree with your conclusion though :)

My takeaway is that traditional polling is mostly dead, because it has become prohibitively expensive to get a representative result. So if we still want to see regular opinion polls, then opt in polling is what we’re going to get. And when it comes to opt in polling, yougov appears to be one of the better firms, from the article: “But opt-in polling firms run the gamut. Some, like YouGov, publish their methodology and strive to ensure the integrity of their data. Others, experts say, do not.”.