Quote (CarsV @ Dec 10 2015 07:45am)
lol? Are you sure these statistics weren't polled from The History Channel viewers?
14 was a National Geographic Survey
10 Public Policy Polling
And I worked briefly (hated it) for a firm calling itself the Institute of Policy Research and places like Gallop and Rasmussen would hire us to do these sorts of surveys.
They are all terrible
Techniques are getting better, but the entire way to reach people has changed now that people don't have house phones, can't track how many calls to individual households because cells, all sorts of really complicating things have happened to polling since the digital explosion. One of the people there running it was a sociologist who was a demographer and he was always on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
The places would hire us to ask these questions that were just worded either very unclearly, ambiguously, or with a ton of bias, and it was always a huge deal getting to the "right" question with them, because they totally had the results in mind already when they came to us, and since they're hiring us, there is tremendous pressure to deliver.
So yeah, it is corrupt as fuck like everything else in America compromised by the profit motive.
This post was edited by Skinned on Dec 10 2015 07:10am