Skewpoll

1. OscarJones says:

   12 October, 2012 at 2:18 pm

   I have read that many years ago Naom Chomsky organised one of the most comprehensive polls undertaken in the USA by organising universities around America to send students out polling hundred and hundreds of people on subjects.

   It was all computerised and took around 6 months and involved obtaining the views of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
   The result was far more accurate, one could presume than polls of a thousand taken that week and produced results like 65% of Americans wanted socialised medicine, increased welfare and good state pensions cuts to war funding and so on., The opposite to regular polls.
2. sandra says:

   12 October, 2012 at 3:12 pm

   In my Uni studies (quite recently) we have been taught that all polls these days are skewed. All the pollsters have to do is ask loaded questions, one way or another, go to the locations that will give them the desired results, then bingo, you have a biased poll.
   Thank heavens the PM is intelligent enough to know that all polls are biased.
   Naom Chomsky was right in organizing that comprehensive poll Oscar Jones. If you want proper information and results you have to poll thousands of people and all of this takes many months of diligent work done by academic students who want real facts, not fiction.
   Good on you for bringing this into the discussion arena.
3. silkworm says:

   12 October, 2012 at 4:22 pm

   Asking skewed questions in a poll is called push-polling. Journalists know Newspolls are push-polling, but they hide this fact from the public because they hold right-wing biases. The right-wing bias in the media should be obvious to an intelligent observer in the way they report gleefully about the government’s apparent poor performance in the polls.
4. GocomSys says:

   12 October, 2012 at 5:56 pm

   It is interesting that some websites appear to favour certain “poll pushers”. Crikey for example prefers to regularly publish so called “Essential” surveys. I wonder why? Special deals? Other reasons?
   Providing excessive mid term polling results I suggest more often than not has sinister connotations.
5. David Selmes says:

   12 October, 2012 at 7:48 pm

   The only polls that have any importance are at a General Election
6. jim says:

   12 October, 2012 at 9:24 pm

   Any poll or movement or good will be twisted. That is the ill. That heights self serving is so often feigned as national defence,intrinsic for majority future and governance and for the people is the greater ill.

   I enjoy your pieces Gee. Here’s one I found back at you.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QlwilbVYvUg
7. gjac says:

   14 October, 2012 at 10:55 am

   Very amusing, Jim. Thanks.

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