Posted on 05/28/2012 3:19:23 PM PDT by ccmg
When you ask 9 questions and the “better-informed” get 1.5 right, the bar is set very low. And they do look like trivia questions in that light.
Without bothering to check out what was asked, I’d suspect that the issues are mostly liberal issues that the right could care less about.
Translation: Fox viewers are the least brainwashed.
Pray for America
If those were the real questions I have trouble with the methodology first but I really don’t believe the results. Would like to hear how the sample was created.
I thought the questions were very simple, and nearly everyone who follows the news should be able to answer most of them. You should know the answers to all of them if you read FR regularly.
Answer to question 3 is wrong; the USA has given the most towards bailing out the European countries in financial trouble whereas Germany gave out loans.
UNMITIGATED BULLSHIT!!
I learn very little of my information from Fox or any other liberal news source.
Stoopid survey questions. I got them all right, but, then, I don’t watch Fox News,,,,, so,,,,,....
I didn’t have any problem with any of those 9 questions, But why didnt they ask who was the President who stirred up the Arab summer and destroyed Mubarak and Assad.
Who started all of this crap in the middle east and who single handed killed Osama Bin Laden. Yeah Right.
By my recollection, you are correct.
This is a bogus poll...
For one, they are comparing apples to bananas, Radio to TV.
NPR just happens to be the news network for public radio listeners who are mostly there for classical music or other
highbrow cultural information.
Public radio naturally has a high intelligent class of listeners who may not care less for NPR’s editorial views and news.
FOX, however, caters to all classes.
When I lived in the US, public radio was all that I listened to, but I despised the NPR news and editorial views.
They might as well have polled theater and concert goers to
those attending a wrestling match.
What a steaming pantload. I’m out. This poll is dead to me...
Yep, Santorum won it after the recount.
Question #7 is confusing.
7. It took a long time to get the final results of the Iowa caucuses for the Republican candidates. In the end, who was declared the winner? Open ended (looking for Romney)
They were looking for an answer for Romeny but Santoram received the most votes. I think it was called a tie. correct me if I am wrong.
Looking at the questions, they are a little goofy, and trivial.
But, I’m more concerned with the sample.
Sample size: 1,185....kind of small
and they were asked which news outlet they watched or listened to most...seeing that Fox is numero uno, people who don’t really watch news, or tolerate their spouses watching it would be most likely to say ‘Fox’.
But lets look at the individual questions by party affiliation:
1. GOP outperformed Rat, Lean GOP beats Lean Rat
2. GOP outperformed RAT, Lean Rat beats Lean GOP
3. GOP outperformed RAT, Lean Rat beats Lean GOP
4. GOP outperformed RAT, Lean GOP beats Lean Rat
5. GOP outperformed Rat, Lean Rat beats Lean GOP
6a. GOP outperformed Rat, Leans are tied
6b. Rats outperformed GOP, Lean Rat beats Lean GOP
7. Rats outperformed GOP, Lean Rat beats Lean GOP
8. GOP outperformed Rat, Lean GOP beats Lean Rat
Source: http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/
In general GOP respondents did better than Rat...a pesky detail left out in the nationwide coverage of this small sample poll.
But really, the entire poll is just statistical noise. People who watched ‘no news’ scored 1.22 corrrect, while people listening to NPR get 1.97 correct? bThat doesn’t mean anything.
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