unbiasing

Since we are all, therefore, poor reporters of what drives our decisions, public opinion polling -- even if done with exquisite controls on sampling randomness and size, careful unbiasing of question structure and sequence, and so forth -- cannot really tell politicians what motivates voters nor, importantly, how to connect with voters to create the political space necessary to move their programs.

Paul Abrams: Democrats (and Bloggers) Asking the Wrong Questions Paul Abrams 2010

Since we are all, therefore, poor reporters of what drives our decisions, public opinion polling -- even if done with exquisite controls on sampling randomness and size, careful unbiasing of question structure and sequence, and so forth -- cannot really tell politicians what motivates voters nor, importantly, how to connect with voters to create the political space necessary to move their programs.

Paul Abrams: Democrats (and Bloggers) Asking the Wrong Questions Paul Abrams 2010

One could suspect that, the “anomalous” temperature trend from 1930 of the CRN12 unlucky minority was spotted by thr GISS normalization/unbiasing algorithms, which immediately proceeded to put the errant stations trend more in line with the wise majority.

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