Posted on 10/16/2012 12:19:33 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
A newly discovered report from Pew (it was hidden since last winter) contains some interesting data on the veracity of survey respondents. Horror of horrors, Pew has actually said unequivocally that some people who speak to pollsters lie! Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, flatly accuses 60% of those who answer their surveys by saying they are registered voters are lying and are falsely claiming to be registered voters.
Pew also found that likely voters are not always telling the truth and point to the statistical impossibility of more likely voters in their surveys than actually recorded votes in recent elections.
In a rare moment of journalistic honesty Pew pointed directly to Democrats as the problem because they are liars. This keeps pollsters like Pew from producing honest results...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
You know what they say.... “Bullsh_t in....Bullsh_t out”
I guess Pew hasn't been to Philadelphia or Chicago recently.
Uh, gee, “Coach”, this sounds like an excuse for Obama’s falling numbers to me.
A lot of the ‘RATS claim to be republicans who served as a “sniper” in Iraq and voted for Bush. Twice.
I guess Pew hasn't been to Philadelphia or Chicago recently.
Dems lie! News at 10 o’clock.
Oh yeah. Most of them claim to drive a “Honda” Prius also.
Well, I guess I’ll stay home Nov. 6th
duh.............
Hmmmm, democrats lie?
I’m shocked, shocked.
The next thing, you’ll be a’tellin’ me that Muslims lie too.
Felons can’t vote.
As a professional, I am shocked, shocked I say, that lying is going on in these polls.
Trends are meaningful (see Rasmussen below), so long as the question wording is steady, but the absolute numbers are suspect. In particular, Republicans are likely to lie about their party, claiming to be Dems who hate the current sleazy liberal incumbent, while Dems are likely to lie about registration (and less often about their party). Despite all the lies, our product is useful for an educated consumer, it just is not the ground truth that many want it to be.
If your boss and the hierarchy of the place you work are rabid partisans and you receive a call from a “Pollster” whose calling name and number display as “Unknown Number”, how are you going to answer the questions?
Liberals lied, polls died.
There’s a nice balance here. Democrat politicians lie and Democrat voters lie. Makes perfect sense.
Oh man, they caught me!
I lie to them every time they interupt my dinner
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