• joostjakob@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Not tobrain on the parade, but the source seems to be an online reader survey from t-online.be. That means the scientific value of this is pretty low. For decent surveys, you need a random sample. In this case, you need to be a visitor of t-online, and you decide for yourself that you want to participate. That’s already enough to skew results. Add to that that there’s a lot of online activism against Tesla (for obvious reasons), so the poll could have been partly hijacked. Such a low number of people who don’t care or haven’t heard about Tesla going rogue is not realistic anyway. There’s a lot of people who are weird, contrarian or simply avoid all news.

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      9 hours ago

      Also surveys generally are a bad way to do science anyway unless it’s psychology, sociology or smt. It really triggers me when people take survey results seriously without critical thought.

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        51 minutes ago

        Well they are an excellent tool to gauge public opinion. But you need a random sample. That’s always been tough, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so.