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You don't. You're obliged to turn to a different metric, like election results, but that's not going to give you a reliable gauge given the small sample sets

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Stephen Webb's avatar Stephen Webb @stephenwebb.bsky.social
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right! so maybe you could ask yourself "given normal historical variability between elections, how far removed are my crosstabs from that normal variability?" but that doesn't fix the underlying problem, it just tells you how weird your crosstabs are.

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Ed's avatar Ed @ed3d.net
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also you can’t turn your audience into rabid paranoid freaks and if you can’t what’s the point, really, might as well die

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