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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (14323)	6/7/2004 12:18:06 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Polls can be easily tainted by such simple things as how questions (or "statements" with which one must strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree, or have no opinion) are phrased, the preliminary statements and earlier questions that are asked, and what news event might have taken place within a few days before the poll. I was polled by ABC/Washington Post a few months back, and the questioner didn't speak loudly and could hardly read the questions. When I asked her to repeat herself, she phrased the questions differently from one time to the next. She also laughed and joked, and obviously didn't take the job very seriously. I wonder how many responses she mis-recorded, either out of her own ignorance or intentionally.