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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

also, one entree mod always tells the truth and one always lies

Customize your item
Entry mods, select up to 1
No mash all veggie
No veggie all mash
No tots sub mash
No mash sub tots

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ipsos has a similar (closed-end) follow-up on *why* voters are or aren't enthusiastic: www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are fans of this question! The "control of the Senate" number, incidentally, was also real high for Jackson voters in Maine

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I really like this question. KFF asked voters who said they were more motivated than usual for this election to explain why they felt that way -- top answers to bring change, or anti-Trump sentiment www.kff.org/public-opini...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i am not allowed to write any more emails today

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

aspects of gongoozling en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongooz...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FWIW a) reaching enough/the right kinds of these folks is obviously a huge and perennial concern, but b) the answer here is "at least some of 'em will (which we know because they're telling pollsters they won't vaccinate their kids)" www.kff.org/public-opini...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lmao, but also 3/5 sports and entertainment feels like it's probably a decent sign for This Site (also I am not finding out what the anime drama is and you can't make me)

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

237. ICR/ABC, 1998: "Now I'm going to name a few things that some people might find annoying. Please listen to the list and then tell me which one of these habits you personally find the most annoying."

When someone is jiggling their leg 5%
when someone snaps or cracks their chewing gum 18%
when someone talks with their mouth full 49%
when someone cracks their knuckles 15%
when someone chews on the ice in a drink 7%

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

true, the cost of grandmas these days is unbelievable (via www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...)

Screenshot of an article. The screenshot reads: “People don’t always understand what the fight really is. They think, ‘Oh, they’ll take my guns away,’” he said. Instead, he has been encouraging union members to think about the “three Gs” of affordability — gas, groceries and Grandma. “It’s more about: ‘What’s your paycheck? What’s your gas?’” he said.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

background on cold pizza: www.nytimes.com/1998/07/23/w... (article also includes the phrase "The tempest in the tomato sauce")

Cold pizza has become a hot topic in the race that will decide who becomes the next Prime Minister of Japan.

It started when John F. Neuffer, a political analyst often quoted by the foreign news media here, described the front-runner, Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, as having ''all the pizazz of a cold pizza.'' Since then pizza jokes have abounded and pizza has had top billing in the Japanese press.

The Foreign Ministry, however, fails to see the humor.

''Unfortunately, Mr. Neuffer's 'cold pizza' is now too famous,'' said Mikie Kiyoi, director of the ministry's international press division. ''Of course, anyone can say what they want, but to have one country's prime ministerial candidate described as such is, well, sad.''

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

can we take a moment here to appreciate the headline and author blurb (remy is correct)

Sunkist, Sunset: Fruit Gems, a Century-Old Candy, Are Discontinued

By Remy Tumin
Remy Tumin has always preferred grapefruit-flavor Sunkist Fruit Gems.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

please note that volunteered answers include "If it suits," "Depends on what doing," "If there are guests," "In wintertime," "If working in house" and "Approve of work hours only"

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is my favorite (extremely dumb) case example (Via www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...)

Slide showing more/less likely to vote questions asking about Trump's conviction and his taste in steak

To state the obvious, it's unlikely that more than one-tenth of Americans actually see this as an important campaign issue. Instead, they're almost certainly using the question to reiterate their previously held opinions about Trump (or steaks).

That same thought process likely comes into play when polls ask about more serious subjects, too. If you see a survey that asks whether voters are more or less likely to support a candidate based on their opinions on climate change, say, or their views on gun control, remember that those may not be quite the deciding factors they seem, either.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

today in wikipedia section headers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_B...

Early life
Criminal career
Final days
Verses
List of crimes
Bestowal

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very excited to visit the Happiest Place on Earth, by which I of course mean the @ropercenter.bsky.social polling archives

A very happy nerd stands amid stacks of boxes filled with polls

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cunningham's Law strikes again meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunning...

Cunningham's Law states "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

nobody has said anything about receiving my Fun Poll automatic replies, which is not in any way going to dissuade me from continuing to do it

Best,
Ariel

PS: Did you know that in a 2017 CBS/SSRS survey, a 33% plurality of US adults said that their favorite fall color was orange?

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I am once again abusing my automatic replies to share Fun Polling with my coworkers

Hi -- I am traveling Monday, Sept. 14, and may be slower to respond to emails today.

Best,

Ariel

PS: Did you know that in a 2021 Ipsos poll, 12% of US adults said they had tried a pumpkin spice latte before, but "will not drink it again"?

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is, if anything, a fairly generous interpretation of what it means for a poll to show an advantage, given that the margin needed to show a lead completely outside of sampling error is roughly twice as big. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Pew chart showing how to measure margin of error on election polls

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And a reminder that polling, even election polling, is not just horserace questions www.cnn.com/2026/09/09/p...

How much can you actually learn from a poll?

While surveys can capture how voters are feeling at a given point in time, they can’t predict the future. This can pose a particular challenge in races like primary elections that often see multiple candidates, varied turnout and a lot of movement - see the Democratic primary in Michigan, where polls may have misread the composition of the electorate, and in Wisconsin, where polls also overstated the eventual support for the progressive candidate but accurately reflected that the race remained highly in flux.

Polls also aren’t meant to be precision instruments, which means that in a tight race, they may not be able to reliably measure which candidate is ahead – merely that the race is close. But even in an election year, most surveys also ask questions beyond whom voters are planning to support.

These questions can provide a sense of the dynamics behind the race: For instance, measuring anti-incumbent sentiments, highlighting voters’ ongoing concerns with cost of living, or tracking big partisan shifts. That’s often more illuminating than the horserace itself.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

unfortunately, I read a children's book of mnemonics for the state capitals and thus, to me, New Hampshire is a nude hamster riding a Concorde

the book is called "Yo! Sacramento" and also has a presidential companion called "Yo! Millard Fillmore"

did I mention the nude hamster is very large?

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

personally I have my doubts www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

“Unless people wake up to the fact that New Hampshire is real"

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

are you familiar with the work of Jurassic 5

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

should I see if they'll let me get away with this

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

???????????? mydialect.us/explore.html...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

...yes? (I have the merger) Via mydialect.us/quiz-extende...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hadn't realized that Jules Verne was such a fan of Meryl Streep

Autogenerated chapter titles for a podcast reading of 20,000 leagues under the sea. A few ads seem to have snuck in there

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

had to dig for these, but www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/u...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

if I didn't already have a truly glorious header image, I would probably change it to this

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

time traveling to 1916 to collect my railroad payment then back to the present to log into my fizzypress account from space www.pewresearch.org/methods/2026...

We asked respondents if they used any of six different social media platforms, one of which was a made-up platform called Fizzypress. We also asked if they had received any of six different government benefits in 2023, including payments from the United States Railroad Administration (USRA) – a real government agency, but one that ceased to exist in 1920. Both of these were asked early on in the survey and were intended to resemble screening questions looking for users of specific social media platforms or recipients of certain kinds of benefits. Of the full sample, 6% said they used Fizzypress and 9% claimed to have received USRA payments.
Later in the survey, we asked respondents if they had ever visited the International Space Station; 10% said they had. Finally, we asked if they had ever served on a Polar-class icebreaker ship, only two of which were ever built and only one of which remains in active use by the U.S. Coast Guard; 8% answered in the affirmative.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

this is such a good headline www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/s...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a wikipedia page with 17 sections, none of which are "controversy" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...

Contents:

Early life

Music career

Public image

Artistry

Other ventures

Personal life

Death

Philanthropy

Awards and honors

Discography

Filmography

Published works

See also

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

this data does not, to my knowledge, exist, but please enjoy this question, which does:

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