This is fascinating. We must stop asking the public questions which they will not/cannot answer correctly. Also, when asking the public about preferred outcomes without any constraints or consequences for such outcomes, like usually done for EU security questions, we do not measure true opinion.
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Matt Graham
When gauging public reactions to the latest controversy, it's important not to conduct or share misleading polls. Our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly is a template for how to (and how not to) poll about the effect of political developments.
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