That’s how statistics works. You take a sample and interpret the reality based on that sample. When you get a blood exam, you don’t need to check all the blood, you take a sample and based on that get a result.
Yes. That’s a usual number for representative polling. Sometimes, they ask 1.000, sometimes 2.000. The other German polling institutes are doing the same.
You can of course criticize that, but Forsa exists since 1984 and they are not known for publishing unrealistic polls. The polls are not the problem here. The people turning off their brains and voting for the far right are the problem.
They just asked 1502 people by phone.
That’s how statistics works. You take a sample and interpret the reality based on that sample. When you get a blood exam, you don’t need to check all the blood, you take a sample and based on that get a result.
Yes. That’s a usual number for representative polling. Sometimes, they ask 1.000, sometimes 2.000. The other German polling institutes are doing the same.
https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/
So it is a poll of people who answer phone numbers they don’t recognize.
You can of course criticize that, but Forsa exists since 1984 and they are not known for publishing unrealistic polls. The polls are not the problem here. The people turning off their brains and voting for the far right are the problem.