2. Do you think the Bush administration has high ethical standards or not? ALL ADULTS Yes, has high ethical standards ................. 41 No, does not have high ethical standards ....................................... 57 Refused/not sure ................................. 2
Jophiel wrote:
Almost six in 10 — 57 percent — said they do not think the Bush administration has high ethical standards
I don't see anything overly vague or misleading about the question nor the article's reporting of it. Any port in a storm, though.
Because if the article had be written this way:
"Over 40 percent of those polled believed that the Bush administration has high ethical standards"
No one would be linking it as an indicator that the Bush administration isn't very ethical. I guarantee you. It's all about the writing. Yes the factual statements are identical either way, but if it had been written the way I just wrote it, you'd not have thought it represented anything wrong or bad.
Edited, Fri Nov 11 20:52:29 2005 by gbaji