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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you all for being here again.

Happy Monday.

And it is a happy Monday because we have new polling.

I will admit it's just internet polls.

So that means that they're not the greatest in terms of accuracy. But I have a lot of issues with them and I will admit it's just internet polls, so that means that they're not the greatest in terms of accuracy.

But I have a lot of issues with them, and I will be able to show you how the cake is baked and give you the kernels of truth to learn from.

So you can see because they made a lot of news.

And there are things to figure out from them, but it will, but they're not the greatest pollster.

So the first poll that came out was a survey monkey poll.

It was released by NBC News.

There is a lot of things in this poll like are red flags.

It is, it is a, it is like a date with a woman who doesn't blink and already knows your mother's maiden name.

It is definitely a problematic poll.

So the first issue with it, the poll was conducted from August 13th to September 1st.

Remember, polls are snapshots in time.

They are not predictors of the future.

So you want a limited time period for a

poll to be conducted, right? A poll should be done over the course of a few days to at most a week,

not over several weeks, because you're not getting an accurate opinion of things. Secondly,

it was done by SurveyMonkey, which is an internet pollster. They don't have a great reputation of the business.

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