Why are polls with decimals laughed at?

[Sir Mohamed]

If a poll with decimals comes out, I often read responses like "LOL decimals". Why are these polls seen as ridiculous? Mathmemtically it's unusual the numbers just add up to an even number.

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

Because polls aren't accurate enough for decimals to be meaningful.

[Del Tachi]

Because polls aren't accurate enough for decimals to be meaningful.

Generally, this is true.  However, it isn't necessarily true.  Polls with large enough sample sizes could have meaningful decimals.

[pops]

Because polls aren't accurate enough for decimals to be meaningful.

Generally, this is true.  However, it isn't necessarily true.  Polls with large enough sample sizes could have meaningful decimals.

Uhh decimals aren't really reliable unless the margin of error were to be <0.5%

So you would need to poll about 50,000 people for a Presidential election, 40,000 for a state election, and 35,000 for a house race

The most people I've ever seen in a poll was about 20,000, and the funny part is it was one of the most inaccurate polls in 2016.

[Sir Mohamed]

Because polls aren't accurate enough for decimals to be meaningful.

Generally, this is true.  However, it isn't necessarily true.  Polls with large enough sample sizes could have meaningful decimals.

Uhh decimals aren't really reliable unless the margin of error were to be <0.5%

So you would need to poll about 50,000 people for a Presidential election, 40,000 for a state election, and 35,000 for a house race

The most people I've ever seen in a poll was about 20,000, and the funny part is it was one of the most inaccurate polls in 2016.

I saw one with 24,000, but that was conducted a moth before the election or so. Therefore, it wasn't accurate. If 2016 was held early October, Clinton would have won.

[SingingAnalyst]

There must be 1,000,000.0000 reasons why.

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Yougov has some UK polls with a sample of 50,000. Assuming there isn't some sort of sample error, decimals could be useful there.