I've been a big critic of opinion surveys, especially when newspapers report them as banner headlines—a practice not just done anywhere else in the world.

The reason is that while opinion polls are legitimate research tools, to mystify their findings as  “the voice of the people” or as representing objective truth is to utterly misunderstand what they are.

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