The Top 40

How have I lived 40 years as an adult citizen but never was polled for anything?

Are the polls completely fictitious?

Has anyone every requested proof that any specific poll was taken?

I was polled, one time. You didn't miss anything. I quit five minutes into the interview, all the answering choices being wrong. Most polls are push polls designed to find an advantage for some politician or program. Like a man said, it's not that you don't know the answers, but that you don't know the questions.

Oh yeah, I remember those days and those polls and those comics. The Gov't acted swift and sure creating a Comics Code Authority. I was a big EC comics fan in those days, (Vault of Horror, Combat, etc.),and what followed was pretty much "bleh" comics.

I suspect Mad was far more subversive than any of the 'horror' comics.

The only polls you should trust are confirm your ill informed bias.

Nine out of ten experts agree that seventy-five ... no, maybe eighty per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

@ chasmatic. I'll include that bit of info too.

I've turned down a number of polls because they invariably call at a bad time (and as a parent of young children, MOST times are bad times.) I accepted a push-poll once, and it had weasel questions such as "If I told you Candidate X did this, would that affect your vote?" Hmm. Do you think I didn't notice you tried to get me to believe something about Candidate X while not fitting the legal definition of slander? I think I annoyed that pollster by continually reiterating that I'd do my research and vote based on that, but I was being nice and not ripping her head off for being a weasel.

First,the Comics Code Authority was established by the comics industry itself, an association of publishers determined to prevent the government from barging in. Had the government inflicted the code on publishers, you can bet the US Supreme Court would've struck it down as violating the First Amendment. But since it was a private agreement, the court could do nothing about it.

BTW, Disney refused to sign on, so Disney comics could include things like crooked cops and vampires.

As to polls;

Not all have been wrong. Not all have been push polls, which are flat out lies. Polls are a lot like experiments, those set up to prove something can be dismissed, those set up to learn something can be trusted.