Couldn't agree more - I loathe them.
What a scourge they are and have done nothing but ruin effective governing and meaningful policy development. And the evolution of dodgy, lazy reporting based on *a random set of data*.
A random snapshot of - *who*?, How many? How and why selected? Where do they live?, How have they voted in past? Age range? Personal circumstances that may influence responses? Where do they get their news / political reporting from? How often polled -Why / why not repeated?, Declared vested interests? Who's paying for the poll and desired scenarios being tested? TORs?
Without all that information, the data has no scope for folk to make an informed decision about what the data may suggest for them.
Also, polls rarely seem to go beyond party politics - and mostly 2PP (and now + ON) - so invalid from outset as Greens and Indys often ignored.
Weekly polls are also meaningless and only serve to drive politicians to govern by poll - and react to how the media skews the data.
SallyABL2
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