Polling data isn't some guaranteed right or something. If you ask the Internet questions and then sell the collated answers, it's your job to authenticate the responses or your polls will be wildly wrong and people will stop buying them.
replyWhich is already the case and nobody but a bunch of campaign contractors who can't justify their do nothing jobs anymore cares.
I just remembered that in the story "Simulacron-3", there is ostensibly a law requiring people to respond to opinion polls. It is illegal to refuse.
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
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Exactly, it’s a beautiful thing when the market is rational https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CINT.ST/
replySomeone using an IP that a geoip database says is US, doesn't mean that person is a US voter. The existence of proxies on the internet is a feature.
replyObviously, a problem not even fully addressed by L2’s datasets. Sure, but the use of proxies to masquerade the identity of users being sold to researcher buyers that paid for a different service is fraud
replyIt makes me question why the surveys don't ask for the users country. That way they cd can figure it out without trying to guess it based off of IP.
replyUsers/respondents lie, and many buyers/researchers are neo-luddites; most C level still come from the telemarketing days. A fun example: mobile targeting is terrible when off wifi because all survey platforms uniq identify users based off their IPv4, so any T-Mobile LTE users in the same city going through the same CGNAT often share profiling data that ends up conflicting, which ends up meaning they don't get sent into the best survey(s). The issue is even worse in heavy IPv6 countries like India+France.
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