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The Vilification of Québec’s Charter of Values by English Media and Opinion Polls
(This story was originally published on November 12, 2013 at the Hill Times site under the title “Oleh Iwanyshyn: English media, polls vilifying Quebec’s Charter of Values“) In its condemnation of Québec’s Charter of Values as an attack on Canada’s … Continue reading
How Polls Have Demonized Federal Deficits – Part II
In Part I of this article we examined how a highly respected newspaper like the New York Times employs biased polling questions to arrive at the questionable conclusion that the public is in favor of austerity measures to cut deficits. … Continue reading
How Polls Have Demonized Federal Deficits – Part I
Recent polls suggest that a majority of Americans have bought the austerity argument that deficits are bad for the economy and need to be eliminated. However, a closer look reveals this conclusion is unwarranted. It appears the poll questions are … Continue reading
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 … 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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