Alright........, so they have an opinion, but they don't want to tell the pollster what it is. And don't want to answer "no opinion", or any of the other "neutral answers" which pollsters offer.
So, then, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that their answers would be randomly assorted among the available answers? And change in a random way, from place to place and time to time? But the answers given are not at all random. They are, in fact, more consistent than most poll questions. Why, if the polled Muslims aren't telling pollsters what they think, do they give the same answers, by 80-95% majorities, from Morocco to Indonesia?
If it were true that Muslims were unwilling to express their true opinions to pollsters, you wouldn't get the poll results that are consistently given. There are statistical patterns that happen in this case, and you don't see those "red flags" of bad data. |
