Sometimes, what we think is obvious and conceivable turns out to be Not so obvious.
An example? When you Conduct a poll to turn out to challenge your own perspective.
Recently, an author of the Occupy Democrats conducted a Twitter poll to see if Elon Musk was more loyal to the Republic of Alexandria than to Ocasio-Cortez.
The survey included a comment that said: “Let’s prove to ourselves one by one how ridiculous the ridiculous poll of rights is” with the idea that the results would be clear. Here are the polls:
Although the results were somewhat shocking.
Elon Musk won more than 81% of the vote, and the AOC received only 19%. Some comments were also made, as several Twitter users mentioned how the voting was not correct or Elon Musk’s followers tilted the scales in his favor.
And then, somewhat presumably, Elon Musk also commented, suggesting that the poll was a parody. (The original poster then called Elon Musk a parody of himself.)
As we all know, these polls are becoming a bit tedious on Twitter and elsewhere. I’ve seen them more on LinkedIn, and it always makes me wonder how legitimate they are because you don’t really know how anyone finds a poll or who votes.
I suspect that Musk’s followers actually jumped on it, due to the fact that he has a lot of hardcore fans and probably not even AOC fans.
And then there’s another possibility.
I further suspect that those who respond to the Twitter poll are more into technology and innovation, so they will naturally find an entrepreneur more trustworthy, especially one who has helped create multiple companies and seems to attract a force of Acolytes. AOC certainly has a huge fanbase, but he is not the only one who has made his mark in the technology sector. This is probably the opposite, as he downplays and criticizes Big Tech.
Most of these votes were meant to be fun but it certainly took a talk turn. The original poster even admitted that it was “a loss” and decided to put up a poll on his feed
There were at least 375,000 responses, which is a good sample size. I’ve seen Twitter and LinkedIn polls with just a few hundred responses, which makes you wonder if they were mostly friends of the person conducting the poll.
Is it possible to choose just a trick? I tend to think so. When I look at the results, the first thing I wonder about is who chose the wording of the poll, who participated, and the results are valid.
I think this survey proves that Elon Musk is really popular.