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Posted on 12/10/2005 8:28:04 AM PST by alnick
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To: alnick
Popularity polls, like the "news" is a bought and paid for commodity, very little objectivity if any.
IMHO
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posted on
12/10/2005 1:33:32 PM PST
by
WhiteGuy
(Vote for gridlock)
To: smalltownslick
When I say it wouldn't happen, I mean that no valid sample survey would ask a content question, then ask for demographic information and stop the interview at that point.
There has to be a fixed order in which questions are asked. The order described would not be it. If it is, or they are free to change up the order of the questions, that's not a valid technique in surveys.
A valid survey would continue to take the information and then count the findings or not in the final results, not cut it off after one content question.
To: Springman
This certainly confirms what we always knew, doesn't it.
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posted on
12/10/2005 7:31:06 PM PST
by
meema
(I am a Conservative Traditional Republican, NOT an elitist, sexist , cynic or right wing extremist!)
To: alnick
I was just called by an NBC pollster. I found it interesting that I was first asked if I think the country is headed in the right or wrong direction, and only after I answered "right," did the man ask my age, and then tell me, "Oh, I'm sorry. The computer is screening for age groups and we're not looking for opinions from your age group at this time. Maybe we'll call you for your opinion later."It's called "fiddling with the poll results until they get the desired results".
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09/09/2006 11:58:16 PM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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