Fighting over a poll is stupid. Fighting over a decision is reasonable.
Big Ten has Embarrassed themselves.
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No they weren't. You have 14 minutes to ammend your post or I am filing under rule 11! SAD
We were discussing the claim 75% were in favor of shutdown ... in a poll...had nothing to do with $$$$ but politics is quite real in the B1G
Hey look! Knight Shtt talking out of both sides of his face again!
Guy makes such bad arguments, even he doesn't agree with them!
Looks like they're gonna be champs again! SEC, SEC, SEC
Morning Consult, the pollster, is rated as a good, not great, polling company by fivethirtyeight.com, which is an excellent source for this sort of thing. They polled 1107 college football fans, a pretty standard sample size for what they were after. Poll was conducted earlier this week.
The results are pretty clear: college football fans don't think there should be a playoff, and they think the B1G made the right decision. You can argue whether they are right or not, but that is what folks think.
Here's the poll: https://morningconsult.com/2020/08/25/college-football-playoff-without-big-10-pac-12-poll/
The results are pretty clear: college football fans don't think there should be a playoff, and they think the B1G made the right decision. You can argue whether they are right or not, but that is what folks think.
Here's the poll: https://morningconsult.com/2020/08/25/college-football-playoff-without-big-10-pac-12-poll/
I'm studying the graphs, and I don't see the conclusion about college football fans don't think there should be a playoff. I see the opposite. Of all the conferences, only the Big 10 had more than 50% no.
Now if the question was asked do fans think there should be a playoff, the answer is that there was not a strong majority that thought there should be a playoff. Yeah, this is mincing the results, but just wanted to clarify.
As to the second poll, was surprised by the 70% support.
It doesn't matter what people think or if more people (support/oppose) what the poll is about.
It's what I think should be and I'll find every obscure source to prove I'm right.
Don't try to bring up facts , I'm only interested in making my POV accepted.
But other than that , thanks for posting a reply in this thread that shows the B1G decision isn't looked at like the conference lost its mind.
In a country with 325 million a poll of 2200 would seem somewhat inadequate so exactly what areas of the country were polled? . Polls used to mean something over the years but less and less faith is put into the claimed results... influencers skew the results...Hard to believe 75% were against playing ...maybe in the East ...but certainly not in the South or Southwest... the PAC conference ? Just look at the states and their political leanings... saying it was a money thing is dumb... if Delaney was still commish in the B1G We would be playing .
And the children playing have whined less the whole pandemic than you do in a day.
That's how polls work bob how many do you think are usually asked questions in polls? Also 75 percent weren't against playing. 75 percent agreed or somewhat agreed that the BIG made the right choice.
Many of those Ohio prisoners ended up getting symptoms within a matter of days and more than a handful died of COVID. I knew thought ad an agenda and wasn't after the truth. Now we know for sure. 118 federal inamates have died of COVID alone.
Polls exist to promote an agenda not to accurately reflect what ppl think. This will painfully evident to the Corona Bros on Election Day
In case anyone missed this....https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...retchen-whitmers-decision-to-cancel-football/
What you say is true of some polls, known as push polls, where the questions are worded to influence the response. Both sides use them. But there is no reason to believe that is the case here.
I have a PhD in this stuff, Bob. A poll of 2200 will generalize just as well to a population of 325 million as it will to a population of 1 million. The proportion of a population sampled has only the most minor relationship to the accuracy of the poll. In fact, it isn't even factored into the margin of error in a situation like this.
The real problem would have to do with non-response rates and bias resulting from them. Unfortunately, most pollsters no longer report that.
But if you are looking for bias, look no further than ESPN. They are losing a ton of money through the B1G and Pac10 decisions, so you are going to see criticism of them nonstop from them.
The professional, non-partisan, pollsters, and I have worked with several of them, do their very best to be accurate. It's how they make their money. If they fall down on the political polls, they have more trouble selling their services for privately conducted polls. I've worked with several of the major pollsters, and a couple of the politically-based pollsters. The major, non-politically oriented pollsters, are usually pretty accurate. The political ones are trying to sway public opinion. Fivethirtyeight.com does a pretty good job of sorting them out. Realclearpolitics has a bit of a right wing lean.
Is that the same CNN poll that said 91% Hillary wins 2016?
They tried, but the front desk at the asylum didn't patch them through. Take it up with them ...but remain calm and collected.
You are really mad that football is happening. Admit it. You want lockdowns because you are scared and hate science
Nah. I was at soccer today.
You keep getting it backwards. You whiners are the scared meek ones. Real adults get on with life.
Why do you always have to be an arrogant dick to anyone who sees things differently than you do?
Grow the “f” up act and like an adult
This poll was in the article that @BROTHERSKINNY posted. Funny how different the numbers can be with different polls and different groups of people.