Well you have a poll with an unusually high % of non responders. That number is high across White, Black and Other. You have a pollster with a history of click bait results who uses non standard polling techniques that he largely refuses to explain. You have a total of around 130 Black responders which would give the results to that particular question a massive +/- variable. You are looking at a 26% negative response from Blacks. You are looking at a total 12% negative response from all Americans and a total 12% negative response from Democrats, which doesn't fit any narrative.
Like I say, you can decide how you want to read it, but it seems more like a Rorschach test than a poll to me, and a sad little hill to die on.
Yes, every poll is a subset of the larger population, and so may be complete bullshit.
But if it's a Rorshach test, why are the racists blacks on Twitter not contesting the findings? Yes, Democrats love to muddy the waters on Rasmussen, like you just did, but they're strangely not being all that critical of Rasmussen's methodology in this case. Of all the criticisms to Scott's point, virtually no one is disputing the poll itself.
They're disputing Scott's recommendation to do what most white Democrats are already doing. Not living near blacks.
That's what's fascinating about this discussion, as it shines a light on our country's fucked up race relations and lack of honesty.
Because we all know the poll's directionally correct. I've lived around a lot of blacks to know that at least half of them heavily resent whites, if not outright hate them. The media trains them to do that, to secure their vote for Democrats.
Don't disagree with anything you said. Personally I have gotten sick of the hopium of Rasmussen with conservative candidates winning easily for months in their polls only to collapse in the last week or two to the aggregate average so they can brag about how accurate they are. Both side have bad pollsters, I consider Rasmussen one of ours.
As far as all polls being subsets, yes, but again no one typically reports results with 130 responders of which over 20% didn't answer. That barely even counts as a poll.
I'm sure an accurate poll would be a sad take on race relations. On the other hand I'm not sure we should be applauding Adams decision to add the strangely high non response number to the negative responses. That feels like a decision to me, and what I was trying to point out all along. I will also add that if you rewatch his video it makes little sense due to the fact that he has lived in that house for nearly 20 years.
But I get your point, in some ways he was just being honest and is being crucified for it. Just not sure that in the end he chose a way to do it that is helpful or worth his sacrifice.
That's not the poll. That's their reply to a reply to a reply of the poll.
Here's the original poll post:
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1628461149514612739
"But a majority of all Americans (72%) agree with the statement, including 53% of black adults, and 69% of Democrats."
And yes, that 53% is literally exactly what Scott Adams quoted, verbatim.
Well you have a poll with an unusually high % of non responders. That number is high across White, Black and Other. You have a pollster with a history of click bait results who uses non standard polling techniques that he largely refuses to explain. You have a total of around 130 Black responders which would give the results to that particular question a massive +/- variable. You are looking at a 26% negative response from Blacks. You are looking at a total 12% negative response from all Americans and a total 12% negative response from Democrats, which doesn't fit any narrative.
Like I say, you can decide how you want to read it, but it seems more like a Rorschach test than a poll to me, and a sad little hill to die on.
Interesting take.
Yes, every poll is a subset of the larger population, and so may be complete bullshit.
But if it's a Rorshach test, why are the racists blacks on Twitter not contesting the findings? Yes, Democrats love to muddy the waters on Rasmussen, like you just did, but they're strangely not being all that critical of Rasmussen's methodology in this case. Of all the criticisms to Scott's point, virtually no one is disputing the poll itself.
They're disputing Scott's recommendation to do what most white Democrats are already doing. Not living near blacks.
That's what's fascinating about this discussion, as it shines a light on our country's fucked up race relations and lack of honesty.
Because we all know the poll's directionally correct. I've lived around a lot of blacks to know that at least half of them heavily resent whites, if not outright hate them. The media trains them to do that, to secure their vote for Democrats.
Don't disagree with anything you said. Personally I have gotten sick of the hopium of Rasmussen with conservative candidates winning easily for months in their polls only to collapse in the last week or two to the aggregate average so they can brag about how accurate they are. Both side have bad pollsters, I consider Rasmussen one of ours.
As far as all polls being subsets, yes, but again no one typically reports results with 130 responders of which over 20% didn't answer. That barely even counts as a poll.
I'm sure an accurate poll would be a sad take on race relations. On the other hand I'm not sure we should be applauding Adams decision to add the strangely high non response number to the negative responses. That feels like a decision to me, and what I was trying to point out all along. I will also add that if you rewatch his video it makes little sense due to the fact that he has lived in that house for nearly 20 years.
But I get your point, in some ways he was just being honest and is being crucified for it. Just not sure that in the end he chose a way to do it that is helpful or worth his sacrifice.