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popeye1250 -> RE: Gooper bias in polls (10/16/2010 2:13:50 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Nnytheangel
This reminds me a bit of a class I once took in college about lying with statistics. It was fairly interesting, especially as everyone does it in the political arena. Yes, everyone. Left, right, liberal, conservative, libertarian, tea, what-have-you. Polls are just an easy way to collect the statistics one wishes to distort. The methods of collection are just one way of showing polls in your favor. Another popular tactic is the questions asked and how they are asked.
One (admittedly silly and outrageous) example being: "Which do you prefer, higher taxes on the rich or to take all the money from the poor?" The answer should very much lean in the direction of the former because, really, who wants to take money from people that have none? Not to mention the infeasibility of it.
Ultimately no matter your leanings or personal preferences, you shouldn't allow your opinion to be so loosely grasped as to be swayed by something as silly as a poll.
That's true.
If I said, "The incidence of tiger attacks are very low in New Hampshire", I'd be correct wouldn't I?
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