Sort by Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) - 11/19/2008 - YouTube
...is easy. Think about this the next time an opinion poll is trumpteted as a real gauge of public opinion. "Opinion polls are not designed to m...
Sort by Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) - 11/19/2008
Yes Minister on how to rig Opinion Polls … Now take a look at this? I am not sure what on earth the City Council was thinking, but this is exactly the kind of skewing of public opinion mentioned in the episode. Okay, it’s an online poll rather than a carefully designed and controlled survey of local opinion. But best practice dictates the Council should be trying to find out exactly what the populus...
Sort by Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (Free subscription) - 08/20/2008
Yesterday the Manchester Evening News splashed on the results of a leaked opinion poll claiming to show that local residents in Manchester would vote in favour of the congestion charge. I’m sure I’m not the only one smelling a large rat at the moment, for a whole host of reasons: How full is the data leaked [...]
