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brought to you by stability home valuation for horses a

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poll that attempt to determine if an issue is relevant

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to voters measures what What does it measure distribution Sailing

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alright well pole's not people from warsaw get that out

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of here pulls khun b particularly useful for politicians trying

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to desperately you're honestly figure out which issues are most

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important of voters so let's get into it Who pulls

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that attempted to terminate and issue is relevant to voters

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Measure a distribution well Distribution tells us what percentage of

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people support or oppose a position which is useful for

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politicians trying to figure out which way to vote on

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a bill but that's not necessarily relevant to the question

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at hand Could a poll that determines in issues relevancy

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be measuring See intensity like fully caffeinated let's say if

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school was voting on whether or not to ban cell

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phones don't panic This is just hypothetical A pole measuring

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intensity around the band would reveal surprise how intensely people

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felt about the issue not how relevant that issue might

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be to voters as a whole will do polls attempting

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to capture relevancy measure stability well actually pulls measuring stability

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tells us to what extent views on a particular issue

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are changing Oh yes opinions on her mom's tuna casserole

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might have been consistently negative for the last decade but

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that doesn't necessarily mean the issue would make the general

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public feels fishy as well What about the latent see

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Well pulls dealing with leighton see try to suss out

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what concerns leaking below the surface could potentially affect voters

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opinions in the future For example if we were thinking

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about passing a bill limiting the amount of sugar we

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could put in serial we might want to pull the

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public on just how fruity they like their loops So

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sorry you're out What this means is that pulls attempting

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to determine if an issue is relevant to voters measure

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b salience salience is just a fancy word Meaning is

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this important or relevant to me Because the point salient

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and that little nugget helps pollsters figure out which issues

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voters want to see addressed The option b is the

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correct answer Once politicians figure out which topics are important

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to voters they can change their beliefs entirely in order

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To get elected Or they can just stick to their 00:02:22.82 --> [endTime] principles That works teo

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