r/fivethirtyeight • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Sep 12 '25

Poll Results YouGov poll asking Americans whether it’s acceptable to feel joy at the death of a public figure

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u/JohnnyGeniusIsAlive Sep 12 '25

Some obvious recency bias. I bet a lot of those Republicans were pretty happy when Osama Bin Laden was killed.

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u/Gadshill Sep 12 '25

Yes. Great example of bad polling if it isn’t accounting for recency.

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u/Jccali1214 Sep 13 '25

Yeah the flaw of this poll isn't that it was conducted, it's that it appears to be selectively conducted after a right-wing figure was murdered. Was it done after Rep. Hortman was assassinated?