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These eleven articles, originally published on iPolitics, will be reposted on this blog with section headings consistent with the earlier posts. In the meantime you can access the complete articles by clicking on the titles. Thanks for your patience.
How polls demonized federal deficits (Part Two) By Oleh Iwanyshyn | Mar 9, 2013 10:13 am | 0 Comments In part one of this article we examined how a highly respected newspaper like the New York Times employed biased polling … Continue reading
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Pollsters use leading questions to manipulate the uninformed
While critics have admonished pollsters and the press for disseminating inaccurate portrayals of public opinion on important national issues, they have generally ignored perhaps the most serious and intractable problem in this endeavour — a poorly informed American public. Polling … Continue reading
Can media be trusted to accurately report polls?
Reassurances from pollsters on the accuracy of results are suspect due to an obvious conflict of interest. They’re marketing their product. The press also has a conflict of interest. Media organizations often commission these polls. Can you remember the last … Continue reading
Raising the Debt Ceiling: a Nation Divided, or Is It Just the Polls?
Polls have not done a good job of communicating public opinion in the debt ceiling debate. In fact, they made a bad situation worse. Creating the perception of a divided public The polls would have you believe that half of America … Continue reading
Do Polls Work?
In an article posted on June 17, 2011 on the iPolitics website, Frank Graves, head of the polling firm EKOS , attempted to explain why his final poll failed so badly in predicting the Conservative majority in the 2011 Federal … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 Election polls, accuracy, Bloc Québecois, Canadian Federal Election, Conservative majority, Democratic bias, false narrative, Harry Reid, Jack Layton, Liberals, media influence, NDP wave, partisan polling, poll predictions, public opinion, Republican bias, Spiral of Silence
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How Polls Influenced the Outcome of the 2011 Canadian Federal Election
Canadians gave Stephen Harper’s Conservatives a majority government in possibly the strangest election in Canadian electoral history. Conservatives ended up with 167 seats, 24 more than before, while both Liberals and Bloc Québecois were demolished with their respective leaders, Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011 election, accuracy, Bloc Québecois, Canadian Federal Election, Conservative majority, Democratic bias, false narrative, Harry Reid, Jack Layton, Liberal, media impact, NDP wave, partisan polling, poll predictions, Polls, popular vote, public opinion, Republican bias, Spiral of Silence
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What Did Polls Really Tell Us about Public Opinion on the Obama Health Care Bill?
Polls on the Obama health care reforms bill raised troubling questions about the validity of their results. In particular, how did the American public answer polling questions about this complex piece of legislation when, by their own admission, most said … Continue reading
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Tagged bankruptcy, biased polls, confused Americans, confusing legislation, economic concerns, health care reforms, media bias, medical insurance, Obamacare, oppose reforms, Partisan Bias, partisan polling, Polls, preformatted responses, prompting respondents, single payer alternative, social conditioning
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How Polls Divided Americans on Obama’s Health Care Reforms
In theory, polls on the Obama health care reforms were supposed to measure public attitudes. In fact, they helped create them. How did this happen? What were these polling fictions? How did the tail end up wagging the dog? The … Continue reading
Polls, Privacy and Security: a Betrayal of Public Trust
How were millions of Americans recently persuaded to accept outrageously invasive body searches at airports while voicing the most muted of protests? I mean we’re talking about the land of the free, the home of John Wayne, where citizens covet … Continue reading