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

To: Selectric II who wrote (14363)	6/7/2004 12:20:51 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

So you still haven't found a poll that shows otherwise? If they're so "easily tainted", there should be at least ONE that you can turn to for support.

To: Selectric II who wrote (14363)	6/7/2004 5:00:18 PM
From: jttmab	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... So? Anything involving human beings is subject to some error. The independent, e.g., Gallup, research companies survive based on whether or not they produce consistent and reliable results. ...and what news event might have taken place within a few days before the poll. And I sometimes chuckle over how fickle the public is over some news related event. There are even "research" organizations that use public ignorance to obtain a particular result. An example of where they compare current political figures to Stalin, Hitler and Churchill. They know full well that there's a hefty number of people that don't know who Stalin, Hitler or Churchill was. Add to that statistics. The general public doesn't know squat about statistics, how they're computed, what they mean, how to interpret them, what's a standard deviation or even what the difference is between a mean and a median. Do you reject all "statistics" because there are people that data mine and present statistics in a biased fashion that most people will arrive at an invalid interpretation? I hope not. 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, .... And there was a doctor in Florida that amputated the wrong leg of a patient....how should I extrapolate that to all medical practices in the United States? Examples are nice. When used they should illustrate the norm or the exception. Is your ABC poll taker, the norm or the exception? jttmab P.S. I don't know what poll [or results] you two are arguing over.