And you really shouldn’t be having this conversation with a former testing engineer.
You can’t compare these garbage polls with what goes on in the science+engineering landscape. The main difference is if we are wrong there are consequences for being wrong.
And surprise surprise they have the predictive value of about chance.
You really need to look into the concept of statistical sampling. It’s how just about all science works, and I can assure you science works.
And you really shouldn’t be having this conversation with a former testing engineer.
You can’t compare these garbage polls with what goes on in the science+engineering landscape. The main difference is if we are wrong there are consequences for being wrong.