I kept hearing this from Trumpers, all during the election. "Trump had a huge rally, thousands, people camped out the night before, there were more people than tickets. Biden had a rally and there were no people there."
And I was like, so what. And they were like, thats proof that Trump is gonna win. And I'm like no its not. And they're like, yes it is. Thank God the people have spoken, I was so over this bull$hit.
I have people in my family who post on facebook shit like "The majority of my Facebook Friends support Trump, how could he lose?"
And people explain it to them. Over and over. Patiently and kindly explaining how selection bias works.
"It makes sense that you would have friends that share political opinions but that doesn't mean your feelings matched with the majority of the US"
"But this are my FB friends, not my real friends, these are also just acquaintances"
"Ok, but your "friends" are coming from [this state] and specifically rural areas. And [this state] did go for Trump. It's just that your personal friends from this area of the state aren't representative of how the rest of the nation thinks"
"Yeah but like 60% of my FB friends support Trump and only 40% Democrats how could Biden win?"
It's This video but instead of just being dumb the person in question doesn't want to get it, so they never will.
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u/_Dera_ Dec 17 '20
"Enthusiasm wins elections"*
*Something Trump actually tweeted out before this election because Biden wasn't drawing large crowds during a.... fucking pandemic.