Pollsters: stop asking people questions they cannot intelligently answer
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According to the new NEWSWEEK poll, Americans back the [Iraq Study Group’s] recommendations by a two-to-one margin. In interviews with 1,000 adults done Dec. 6 and Dec. 7, 39 percent of Americans said they generally agree with the group’s 79 recommendations, while 20 percent said they disagree. (Twenty-six percent said, in effect: “Report, what report?”)
Good on the twenty-six percent who told the truth!avi to mpeg serial
As Newsweek notes, the ISG issued exactly seventy-nine recommendations. (You can download the report, in pdf, here.) To the 39 percent of Americans who say they agree with those recommendations — all 79?! — I’d love to put it to them: “Name three. Discuss.”avi to mpeg serial
I’d bet the equity in my home that those 39 percent have no idea what they’re agreeing to! What’s more, the ISG made its report public on Wednesday, Dec. 6. Newsweek conducted its poll on Dec. 6 and 7. Are we supposed to believe that nearly two-fifths of the American public downloaded and read the report on either the day of its release or the next day? avi to mpeg serial
Now four days from its release, have even 5 percent of the American people read the report? Will more than 5 percent ever read it? I’m being wildly generous here. Nearly 218 million adults live in the United States. Five percent of that number is 10,900,000. A book makes it to the New York Times bestseller list if it sells a 100,000 copies.avi to mpeg serial
I wish pollsters would stop asking questions that people can’t answer intelligently. It’s an unenlightening practice.avi to mpeg serial
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