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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (757687)	1/21/2007 9:55:23 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"I thought it was a straight forward question which anyone could have answered with a yes or a no, I don't see how it was biased in any way... can you tell me how?" Of course! No problem. When TWO or more measurable factors (two or more potential influences...) are conflated into one question, that CONFOUNDS any ability to scientifically analyze the answers... because it is impossible to separate out which of the factors produced the result. (In this case, by asking if people wanted the 'President's plan for Iraq' to succeed, instead of breaking that out into TWO separate questions... it becomes impossible to determine from the answer results whether people want success or failure for America in Iraq... or whether they want good or bad things for the political/historical reputation of the President. That is a classic example of a confounded poll (unscientific design) at best, and at worst is a PUSH POLL, designed to INFLUENCE not to INFORM.