POLL: Should Alberta drop all COVID restrictions?
(calgary.ctvnews.ca)
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78% say yes.
You can play too, as I just did lol
Oh I did! LOL
80% now
81% now
Yeah but only like 8000 votes total. With an online poll, that's not really reliable.
It's called a sample survey, fren.
Yes but a sample has to be reflective of the general population, fren. Anyone could have posted this to a specific interest group with low vote counts like that.
Like asking more democrats than Republicans their opinion on Trump.
Yes but what do you mean by low vote counts? Because the total sample size of 8000 or so is small compared to the city of Ottawa?
I mean that's not necessarily as much of an issue as I see the poll taking votes from random people on the net who may not be from Ottawa.
If they could ensure only qualified voters were tallied, then the 8000 person sample would be much more reflective of current sentiment regarding Ottawa covid restrictions.
Not just city of Ottawa, I'm in the northeast US and just voted. When anonymous internet people can vote you'd need much larger vote counts to get a more accurate sentiment
But with a larger vote count of people from all over the world voting, that wouldn't reflect the sentiment of Canadians though. Which is what the poll seems to be looking to measure.
I get that but I'm sure everyone here voted and wherever else this was posted. It's fun to look at but really doesn't tell us much more than 8000 people from the internet voted.
These types of political polls always have people jumping on to turn the results. Had it been region locked, or a phone poll to homes in Alberta, we'd be able to more comfortably say these results are at least somewhat accurate.
Track results - they may be fixing the polls again by locking the yes/no ratio
CTV CALGARY POLL QUESTION Is it time to drop COVID-19 restrictions in Alberta? Thanks for your vote
Yes
3513 (79 %) No
962 (21 %) Total number of votes: 4475
YES. Yesterday's poll, "should the protesters go home" had 25K respondents, and that was around 2pm. Now it says only 12K. The ratio basically stayed the same. Unless I'm missing something, I think you might be right and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
CTV CALGARY POLL QUESTION Is it time to drop COVID-19 restrictions in Alberta? Yes
5748 (81 %) No
1327 (19 %)
Total number of votes: 7075
Yes
4634 (80 %) No
1192 (20 %) Total number of votes: 5826
I thought they might have dropped a bunch of secret squirrel mail-in votes overnight but no, it's 81% now!
Is it time to drop COVID-19 restrictions in Alberta?
Yes
5272(81 %)
No
1261(19 %)
Total number of votes: 6533
Let the sheep have their covid restrictions while us lions party and hang out with our frens.
Still 81% (+1 more)
Should the people let the dictators live?
Yes!
Yes.
WOW I voted in a Canadian Election
Theres that 30% the psychologists say will be lost forever. Almost like they know psychology or something
Of course they should.