Only be sure always to call it, please, research

Oh look, a poll.

Hahaha I’m kidding, of course; a question on Twitter is not a real poll because the respondents are not randomized. It’s a poll-within-a-set, if you like, but it doesn’t demonstrate anything.

And yet…

His research poll. His research poll. Come on. It’s Twitter. The people who see your tweets are not a random sample of the population. You can’t do a research poll on Twitter!

There is also of course the highly tendentious, loaded wording of the question.

Who is Jan Gooding? The chair of Stonewall UK.

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