Comment by extraisland

> I’d still call that statistical illiteracy

It am suspicious of polling because I have a decent understanding of statistics. That is the opposite of statistical illiteracy.

> But someone concluding that all polling is useless because the statistics are hard is sort of analogous to someone rejecting cosmology because we haven’t actually been to Andromeda.

That isn't the argument being made. Nobody said it is "useless". I said I was "suspicious of polling organisations". Polling can be and has been used to manipulate public sentiment.

Therefore it is prudent to be suspicious of any polling.