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The Poll That Ended Dilbert

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Are You Racist?

Rasmussen poll is both clearly a heckle and isn't trying to elicit usable information, says CNN's John Sutter. "It's not a great example of polling on the hard questions or polling on the things people don't want to talk about because it's not actually telling you any information," he adds. Racist statements can be embedded in other comments so that they seem like counterintuitive answers but have plausible deniability when asked over the phone by an interviewer who may represent your racial group.

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