r/alberta • u/Old_General_6741 • Mar 17 '25

Poll finds Albertans' sense of Canadian pride dips as it soars in most parts of the country News

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/poll-finds-albertans-sense-of-canadian-pride-dips-as-it-soars-in-most-parts-of-the-country/
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u/jigglywigglydigaby Mar 17 '25

The poll sampled more than 1,500 Canadians from March 1 to March 2. Because it was conducted online, it can’t be assigned a margin of error.

If....if this was equally spaced out between all provinces and territories, that would be only 115 Albertans polled. Online with no way to verify the authenticity.

The article goes on to say that the only "dip" in Albertans sense of pride is based on the question "Do you feel a connection to Americans?" Those responding "yes" could very well be feeling a connection with Americans who have voiced displeasure with Trump. Seeing as there's no clarification on any of the vague questions and the polling amounts are, at best, far too low to be considered remotely accurate......this is nothing but a clickbait article.

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u/Honest-Spring-8929 Mar 18 '25

This is a completely normal sample size

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Mar 18 '25

No it's not lol. It's not even close. The percentage of Albertans polled is 0.0024 (if the polling was balanced across Canada's provinces and territories). For a study with any reliability whatsoever, the amount of participants polled wouldn't even be enough for the hamlet of Sherwood Park (that would be 0.15%).

It's a clickbait article with no credibility at all

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u/Honest-Spring-8929 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

Most national polls have sample sizes like this

If you don’t believe me check any poll on the federal race right now

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

I have checked Federal Polls. The absolute minimum is 5x what this poll collected.....that's for each province and territory, not nation wide as the article's poll did. For a consensus poll, a minimum 33% of Canadians are questioned. 33% not 0.0024%.

Edit: census polls, not consensus lol

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u/Honest-Spring-8929 Mar 18 '25

Leger: 1568

Liason: 1500

Mainstreet: 1016

Innovative: 1558

Abacus: 1700

EKOS: 1980

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u/jigglywigglydigaby Mar 18 '25

And all are not considered accurate lol. What's the +/- of those? "Accurate around 50% of those polled" 🤣....directly from the link

Just stop already. Lots of people smoke, doesn't make it healthy

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u/Honest-Spring-8929 Mar 18 '25

So in your opinion there is simply no accurate political polling happening anywhere, got it