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Statisticians are not necessarily pollsters
"Could she get a salon account? Would be interesting to hear details. Always skeptical of any poll, myself. Maybe because no one ever polls me!"
Her friend, if she actually exists, is not a pollster. Pollsters are a specific type of statistician. Most statisticians don't know diddly about polling - that's me for sure. I'm a statistician, but know only a little about polling. Polling is a black art, not a science. So her friend, if she exists, who is not a pollster, has no special standing to comment anyway.
It's like doctors. You don't see a proctologist about your throat cancer.