Gigapress
Trying to be less wrong
If public opinions of Elon can change substantially in two weeks despite nothing especially noteworthy occurring, then the opinions are very fickle and weakly held. If so, the opinions probably don’t have much effect of Tesla’s business and mission success.A poll that's two weeks old is as stale as bread left out that long. At least it feels like watching TSLA drop below 20% during that period, and for now is 15% lower while Nasdaq is up for that same period.
Polls in general are pretty much eschewed by any self-respecting social scientist because polls have all kinds of problems and a Twitter poll is even worse. It’s sampling bias all the way down. A self-selected minority of the population is on Twitter in the first place, and the algorithm will profoundly affect who even sees the poll, and those who are on Twitter generally receive much more exposure to Elon Musk content due to him being the network’s most prominent power user (and now owner and interim CEO), and then we have no idea how many bots vs troll farms vs real humans replied, and we don’t have baseline comparisons with similar polls for other public figures.
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