Hey Pamelaam, I am taking a snack room poll. Would you prefer more savory snacks or more sweet snacks in the snack room?

Ooh, I prefer more savory. Maybe some more chips. Copy that. That's it. Just a one question poll.

Yep. Hey, Cap, I'm taking a one question snack room poll. How many peanut butter cookies should I eat today?

Uh, Ryan, I don't think you're polling correctly. Uh, I think I know how to ask people questions and use that data to predict things.

Yeah, I think we're going to have to take a closer look at polling. I'm Pamela Kirkland.

And I'm Ryan Willard. It's Tuesday, October 15th.

We are the 10 News, and this is an election special report.

10. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Cap, 100% of the people I poll think we deserve more chips in the snack room.

I'm still not convinced.

Back me up here, Pam.

I see what you're going for, Rye, but maybe we should talk to a polling expert to break down exactly what polling is and how we use them. Oh, I know someone. Let's FaceTime her.

Hey, Farah. I'm getting a little confused with all the election polls that I'm seeing in the news.

I was hoping you could help us out today. Can you tell the tenors who you are and where your pulling wisdom comes from?

Yeah. So my name is Farah Bostic. I live in New York. I work at it for myself. Actually, I've

run my own company for about a dozen years. I do market research. Mainly I do what's known as

qualitative research where I'm actually talking to people in conversation,

not unlike this, about their lives and about their favorite things to drink or their

favorite pair of shoes or what kind of car they want to get, those kinds of things.

And so I've been doing this market research work now for about 20 years.

And this year, after annoying my husband and my mother with my commentary

about why you can compare some kinds of surveys and you can't compare other kinds of surveys,

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