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parineumtoday at 2:14 AM2 repliesview on HN

Polling data isn't some guaranteed right or something. If you ask the Internet questions and then sell the collated answers, it's your job to authenticate the responses or your polls will be wildly wrong and people will stop buying them.

Which is already the case and nobody but a bunch of campaign contractors who can't justify their do nothing jobs anymore cares.


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schoentoday at 2:33 AM

I just remembered that in the story "Simulacron-3", there is ostensibly a law requiring people to respond to opinion polls. It is illegal to refuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3

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x0xMaximustoday at 2:28 AM

Exactly, it’s a beautiful thing when the market is rational https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CINT.ST/