Swimming in a fish bowl
@plentie.bsky.social
Interested in opinion polling. And how the mainstream press frames stories. Third-culture person.
The pathway is by no means unaffected. The new taxable income requirements and B2 language test will impact a huge number of BNOers.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The pathway is by no means unaffected. The new taxable income requirements and B2 language test will impact a huge number of BNOers.
The HKBNO community is understandably mortified. Many of whom sold everything and scrimped to bring their families to the UK, only to have the goalposts moved by a craven policy change.
Well done, Labour - you've alienated this group of hundreds of thousands of voters for generations.
Well done, Labour - you've alienated this group of hundreds of thousands of voters for generations.
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The HKBNO community is understandably mortified. Many of whom sold everything and scrimped to bring their families to the UK, only to have the goalposts moved by a craven policy change.
Well done, Labour - you've alienated this group of hundreds of thousands of voters for generations.
Well done, Labour - you've alienated this group of hundreds of thousands of voters for generations.
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Leading survey question resulting in over-claim.
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Leading survey question resulting in over-claim.
The 'fuck right off' seems to fit, though
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The 'fuck right off' seems to fit, though
My hunch is that the "Green voters" in this poll are answering truthfully, but they aren't representative of all Green voters.
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My hunch is that the "Green voters" in this poll are answering truthfully, but they aren't representative of all Green voters.
There are much bigger challenges with polling than rogue participants offering spurious answers, such as drawing a properly representative sample, and constructing unambiguous questions.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There are much bigger challenges with polling than rogue participants offering spurious answers, such as drawing a properly representative sample, and constructing unambiguous questions.
That's always possible, but typically confined to a small proportion of the total sample, plus there are checks in place to spot random activity.
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
That's always possible, but typically confined to a small proportion of the total sample, plus there are checks in place to spot random activity.
Not necessarily. The two questions wouldnt be linked in the survey. They will be mixed with other questions and the results of each question cross-tabulated to find interesting comparisons.
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Not necessarily. The two questions wouldnt be linked in the survey. They will be mixed with other questions and the results of each question cross-tabulated to find interesting comparisons.
You can trust the relative scores but not the absolute scores, especially if recruited via an online access panel as this survey is.
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
You can trust the relative scores but not the absolute scores, especially if recruited via an online access panel as this survey is.
Charlie and the Cancel Factory
September 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Charlie and the Cancel Factory
It's a bot, and best ignored.
September 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's a bot, and best ignored.
Ok, thanks. Presumably you have a personal relationship if the advice was free? It's a genuine question as I'd like to find a good tax accountant, but my impression is that advice is expensive.
September 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ok, thanks. Presumably you have a personal relationship if the advice was free? It's a genuine question as I'd like to find a good tax accountant, but my impression is that advice is expensive.
From who did you obtain this advice?
September 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
From who did you obtain this advice?
The ethnography is more on point. But it doesn't tell us anything new. We know Reform is a protest vote. But do voters genuinely believe their lives will be better under Reform, and if so how?
August 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The ethnography is more on point. But it doesn't tell us anything new. We know Reform is a protest vote. But do voters genuinely believe their lives will be better under Reform, and if so how?
Thank you for publishing this work. But it's very difficult to extract anything useful from the quant, which is just a set of segment descriptors without any coherent narrative. /1
August 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Thank you for publishing this work. But it's very difficult to extract anything useful from the quant, which is just a set of segment descriptors without any coherent narrative. /1