Do you think that the people here on Polls and Surveys are a good sample of society?

just wondering what you think, concidering some of the crazies that post racist and radom sick stuff.

Do you think that the people here on Polls and Surveys are a good sample of society?
Great cross section of society.


From the classy to the trashy.


From the intelligent to the more intelligent.


From the rude, crude %26amp; lewd to the more refined %26amp; respectful.


Sell our country to the Mexicans, wealth-redistributing, burn-the-flag, give all our wealth to some third-world-country Ultra-liberals to Spy-on-your-own-people, suspend as many Bill Of Rights as you can, Big-Business, Big-Government, Big-Brother, war-mongering Ultra-conservatives.


Atheist to agnostic.


Virgin-sacrificing, blood-drinking, God-hating pagan to Born-again, Bible-thumping, pew-jumping, speaking-in-tongues, fundamental Christian.


Anti-sexual, asexual, multi-sexual, metro-sexual, heterosexual, bisexual, trans-sexual.


Yep, they're all here.
Reply:the best lazy crazy and damn enteraining folks of society
Reply:No I don't~~ A lot of people say things on here, that they wouldn't have the guts to say to someone face to face~~ Makes it easy when you hide behind an Avatar and computer screen~~~~~~~
Reply:prolly pretty darn close
Reply:It just reminds us how we should keep our guard up in "the real world"
Reply:I think you'll find the best, the worst and everyone in between here. Boggles my mind how some think at times though. But it's always entertaining that's for sure.
Reply:Yes, I think so !!!
Reply:not always
Reply:Its a sad reality, but I would have to say yes, this is a sample of our society. And to think, these polls are JUST a sample.
Reply:I didn't know we were supposed to be.
Reply:I agree I think this is a great question, and I really hope that this is not a good sample of society, if so we are in trouble, there are alot of people on here that only seem to have half a brain!
Reply:I think so, considering everyone is in cognito and don't have to worry about being exposed. People tend to be their true selves in that case.
Reply:No. Do you want to know why? First off, who is asking? Secondly, there is this pesky margin of error thing. When you watch the news and you see at the bottom in small print, "-1/+1" that is the margin of error. Now if there is a 1 point diffrence in yes or no then that margin of error of -1 or +1 makes the poll or survey worthless. Now polls and surveys can have a margin of error up to 7% or more. Ideal a margin of error should be under 2 with the difference between the yes/no well over the margin of error. Hope that helps. A good college statistics class will bore you to death with all this.
Reply:Hmm..possibly.
Reply:Even with those posts that you speak of(because it's easy for anyone to create as many accounts as they want to do those rude things), I like to think that there's a pretty regular sample of society here, sure. The one thing I've noticed though, especially through yahoo 360, is that there seem to be a lot of people here that are writers, artists, dreamers....just more creative people in general. I don't know if that's a coincidence or if it's because people find it easier to be themselves here, but that's what I've observed. There are all kinds of amazing people here :)
Reply:Unfortunately , yes buddy! People here come from all walks of life , all ages, any lifestyle, and most of all any IQ! So I'm sorry to break it to ya like this but scientists say that a gathering of people (crowd) is just like dealing with mass population which is equivalent to a 5 year old scientists say...
Reply:You're cute...
Reply:Well, some people are very offensive to other people.


And it's like that in daily life too. There are also funny people and serious people. So there's a little bit of everything at Yahoo Q%26amp;A. Unfortunately that goes for the bad things too.
Reply:yes we are - after you take out all the yahoo troll who have moved in (the troublemakers)
Reply:I hope not...I'd seriously wonder what the hell this world is coming to...
Reply:Not necessarily...There was a telephone poll done in the 1940's to predict a presidential election and the poll was all wrong...the reason was...only a certain kind of people owned telephones...usually more wealthy, more educated and more urban.





I think the same thing is true of computer owners and operators...usually it will be wealthy, educated, urban and most of all BORED. The other thing about computer users is I think many of them are younger than the general population.





We have a large sampling of very young, bored and yet somewhat wealthy (compared to world standards anyway) and intellectual, older people. However, the intellectual, older people can usually find something better to do that work YA for opinions.





You question is sort of like saying "Are people who read dime novels and watch soap operas a good sampling of society?" Not really. The sampling is a little skewed for obvious reasons. I wouldn't trust YA to predict a presidential election but does take a cut out of the middle of society.
Reply:Only those with a good sense of humor
Reply:if it is maybe i should leave society
Reply:I think they are more inteligent.
Reply:yeah.totally.


it sure is the best and the worst example of a kind of society.
Reply:l hope we are because l only hang out with the best of people in the best of places. we are funny and easy to get along with. and we have a great attitude on life. now and then we may poke a little fun. that means YES WE ARE
Reply:yes, it is a candid part of people's thoughts
Reply:I think so.
Reply:Sorry to say but I think that the people here a fairly representative of people everywhere.
Reply:guess all have some kind of opinion out there, we all in this world together as humans.
Reply:God I hope not.