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So, they lied. They didn't really mean 95 percent of Americans (and they knew they didn't mean that), they only meant 95 percent of the people they interviewed. Then they extrapolated and just ASSUMED that this result was true of the entire American population.
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There really is a helluva lot of research and mathematical methodology into generalizing from a sample to the whole. Seriously, this is a huge area of science and math. I am sorry you do not believe any of it, but if you studied it well enough to understand it, it would make sense to you.
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I don't consider asking people a bunch of questions and then drawing conclusions about a larger group of people based on the answers "science."
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That is because you do not understand it. May I take it that you are both unwilling to study the matter in depth, and also unwilling to just believe the entire world of mathematics?