skulblaka

English is a mish-mash hodgepodge of two dozen other languages, many (most?) of which are Romantic/Latin-based.

I do think they need to have a good sample size to get results that make sense, yes.

Doing some research on it, seems like Quinnipiac’s standard polling is conducted “in more than 20 states and cities as well as nationally” (particular locations not specified) and has typically 1,000+ respondents using random digit dialing. Meaning they just slap random numbers into the phone and see who picks up.

I can’t say I can immediately come up with a better solution right off the top of my head right now, but I can identify several problems with their approach, namely being actual size of sample (1000 respondents is 0.000003% of the population) and the way they gather their responses (when was the last time you answered the phone for an unknown caller? Now when was the last time your grandmother did?).

Eh, I don’t think you need to apologize for anything. I am being a grumpy, cranky old asshole after all.

And you’re right, anyway. No group of people are truly homogenous. Not all Boomers are bad in the same way that not all Democrats are good. I lose sight of that sometimes and I notice that others do too. It is in our human nature to group and categorize people and things and then to make sweeping assumptions about those groups. I try not to fall into that trap when I can notice it, but I’m just as fallible as the next guy.

Nowhere in that statement did I call out Boomers specifically. This is a cross generational problem. I call out bullshit culture war voters which are, overwhelmingly, older folks. But they’re not completely to blame. There are plenty of younger working age people that fall for this same brain dead bullshit. But that’s what it is, is brain dead bullshit.

I’ve got plenty of real issues with all sorts of real shit, that’s just one of them.

I didn’t mean this in such a way as to call you out personally. Sorry if it seemed that way. I’m just sick and fucking tired of human rights being constantly stripped back for everyone and these fucking fools still just going along with it all happy and joyful because someone else is going to get killed to keep their retirement fund happy. With all due respect, of which exactly none is due, fuck that.

This isn’t an age issue. I don’t care how old or young anyone is. I care about them actively speeding us all into hell, collectively, because people think the DOW average is more important than the lives and livelihoods of our citizens.

Money is the root of all evil.

Your gleeful wishing of death and despair to people who have worked their entire life is somewhat gross.

Their gleeful wishing of death and despair to people who have done nothing to them except mind their own fucking business is somewhat gross. Reap what you sow. I’ll care about your 401k when y’all decide to care about human rights. Trump is in office because of culture war bullshit about gays and trans folks more than anything else. So I don’t want to hear it. Y’all collectively decided that punishing people who have done nothing wrong is more important than your retirement so now it’s time to lie in that bed you’ve made.

I’ve never heard of that polling agency in my life before. I had to look it up, it’s a private university in Connecticut.

I sure didn’t get polled about any of this.

So no, more precisely, half of all people polled by this one school in a state that nobody talks about approve of what he’s doing. I’m willing to bet half of those people have no idea what’s going on.

I have a very hard time believing that half of all Americans are happy and content with current events. I live here, I hear people complain.