Exclusive: Just 46 per cent of young men support abortion in all or most cases, almost half as many as older generations
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250615194152/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/abortion-rights-uk-legal-men-poll-b2770356.html
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1000 people is such an irrelevant data set.
16-34 is such a massive age range, a 34 year old is completely different to a 16 year old.
Where was the poll even posted? Media like this is what’s causing our problems. It’s just cherry picking for headlines.
A sample size of 1000 people gives a margin of error of only 3%…
For random bias yes. Unfortunately, that age group are notoriously difficult to poll accurately. Without knowing how the polling was done, detecting systematic bias is difficult.
E.g. street polling on a Sunday morning, near a church, or mosque will get vastly different results to the same poll near the high street, on a Friday night.
Also relevant. https://xkcd.com/882/
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a worrying poll. Buta lot of studies like this disappear back into the noise, when studied by multiple groups.
The study says they used online polling but didn’t elaborate further so who’s to say what biases there may or may not be. But generally ipsos does a pretty good job with their polling.
I do agree that most of these polls tend to end up being nothing burgers, but there has been a recent trend of younger males gravitating towords the right of the political spectrum. I mainly commented to point out that a sample size of 1000 is generally recognized to be large enough for accuracy.