Polls Troll
The Truth of Truth and Lies in Polls
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2 min readNov 3, 2019
The science of lies is a cognitive science. As is the science of truth. The fundamental problems with polls is that they are fiat questions asking for fiat answers, and the polling process cannot tolerate the essential dialogue required to solve the problems. The human brain does not work correctly with fiat assertions, whether they are questions or answers or, for that matter, any…