IF Drakeford says...

[Dave Blue]

Thanks, although I was already fully aware of how polls work.

1,000 people (from who knows where) were apparently polled. That led Walesonline to produce a headline which read: "Almost Two Thirds Of People In Wales Say They Prefer Mark Drakeford's Approach to Covid to England's."

Which is, of course, utter horse shit.

What’s horse shit - views that don’t accord with you or a rigged poll?

[The Lone Gunman]

What’s horse shit - views that don’t accord with you or a rigged poll?

What's horse shit? A claim that almost two thirds of people in Wales say they prefer Mark Drakeford's approach to Covid to England's is horse shit.

Nobody knows what percentage of the population holds that view because the population hasn't been asked.

[TWGL1]

What’s horse shit - views that don’t accord with you or a rigged poll?

1,000 people out of a population of 3.138m is an extremely small sample , and everyone I know think Drakeford is out of control. The older generation perhaps have different views

[Rjk]

1,000 people out of a population of 3.138m is an extremely small sample , and everyone I know think Drakeford is out of control. The older generation perhaps have different views

I think for a 95% confidence level you would expect an error of around +/- 3% for a poll of around 1000 people, representing a population of 3 million, assuming there aren't major problems in the study