On: Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet

[rayiner]

Yes they are. A representative sample of the population is not online, period, and the huge self-selection bias in the sorts of websites they visit necessitates some very substantial black magic to get numbers out.

[nick_riviera → rayiner]

I don't disagree with that at all. The stats are completely bollocks but they indicate a trend reasonably well even with the selection bias.

What I'm saying is that they do have influence and after all, that's what GCHQ are about even if the numbers are wrong.

[nick_riviera → nick_riviera]

HN hostilities already...

Even Reddit (yes REDDIT) is better than this hole.