this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Polls are important especially in economics because people's opinions matter. Everyone thinking the economy is bad will cause a recession even if there isn't an economic reason for one otherwise.

[โ€“] mob@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

True.

But this is also another volunteer, likely anonymous, YouGov internet poll that people are taking as fact again. Lemmy is flooded with them and they have no value

Here's another YouGov poll post from a few days ago if you want to read discussion why they are/these posts are clickbait trash

https://lemmy.world/post/9334610