So, while looking at the wires at Breitbart.com, I came across a poll that says that a majority now support a public option. It showed that 52% of Americans now support a public option. Of course, when it come to any poll, you want to make sure they are legit. And the best way to do this is too look at the methodology.
We have a right to question what polls might say with CBS and others polling more Democrats in order to get a more favorable result for their programs. So, it is only logical that one might see these results as fishy. Especially with other pollers showing much different numbers. So I followed the actual wire and guess what I found... only this:
A picture:
And only what they talk about in the wire:
In the AP-GfK poll, the differently worded questions on the public plan each had a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. The poll interviewed 1,502 people from Oct. 29-Nov. 8 with an overall sampling error margin of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
Nothing about their methodolgy. Nothing about who they interview; their voter status; or even who they interviewed them. Was it a phone interview or a sit down with random college students from the Stanford campus? I have looked everywhere, and I haven't found it.
Are they hiding the methodology so that people with focus on the results rather than the methods used to get the result they wanted? I don't know. This only fuels the skepticism that the American public has for the media.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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