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CloudResearch is the company blog at cloudresearch.com, writing about data and business. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-20, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-08-28
What Hacker News says?
Depends on what you consider to be "support", but this report is pretty interesting and says something like 24% of US adults sympathize greatly with Mangione, and 63% have some non-zero level of sympathy for him. Outright approval for his actions isn't directly quantified by this poll but is undoubtedly lower than that 24% figure. One interesting thing is sympathy for Mangione doesn't seem very strongly influenced b…
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on “Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah”Submitted Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHere's another explanation, pre-election, of the gap, the found that Trump voters are more likely to lie to pollsters: https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/blog/election-2020-p... These pollsters agreed with this phenomenon, arrived at from a totally different direction: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/29/2020-polls...
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on “One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong”Submitted Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think the equivalent statement, as in one that is preexisting and has political connotations[1], would be "Black lives matter", for which I would not be surprised to see a decent number of "unsure" responses among white poll respondents asked to agree or disagree, especially a few years ago. I don't think either response is great, but I don't think a single poll of 130 people is a good justification to make such s…
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on “'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams dies at 68 after prostate cancer battle”With random sampling, a sample size of approximately 400 provides a ±5% margin of error for a population of 331,000,000. A ±3% margin can be reached with about 1,000 respondents. Here are a few links that explain why this works: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/05/12/methods-1... https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/how-many-people-do-i-... https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/guides/statistical-s...
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on “Americans Are Suddenly Feeling Way Better About the Economy”