Jophiel wrote:
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That they didn't ask people what they thought of "the Republican Party", but were asked to respond to a list of names and that their responses were then correlated to the parties after the fact.
This is your assumption. You haven't backed it up aside from saying that it's true.
Huh? It's in the OP Joph. It's in the second link you just posted. Is your brain broken or something? The question states that they're going to read a list of names of people in the news (presumably people associated with each party, but I don't know the list myself). Immediately underneath that is the "results" of that question, which list responses by party ID.
I'm not making some crazy assumption. That is *exactly* what the article says.
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That said, nothing from the B set suggests that they just called their "Cheney" responses the answer to how people felt about the GOP.
I don't care what specific names were in the list Joph. Stop talking about the list. Geez!
The point is that regardless of which names were used, you can't correlate
any list of names to a party. Yet, that's exactly what they apparently did.
They didn't say it was "Cheney". But it's very clear that based on the answers about how people feel about a list of people (whatever that was), they correlated the results to the parties. That's incorrect methodology. If they want to know how people feel about the GOP, they should freaking ask that question?
Why is this complicated? The question above the results in that article should have read: For each party, Republican and Democrat, please answer whether you view them "favorably", or "unfavorably".
See how easy that is? That's the results they presented, right? But that's not the question they asked.
That's why it's a "bait and switch". They asked one set of questions, but presents the answers as though they asked something entirely different. It's not about what names were on the list Joph, it's about the fact that they used a list of names in the first place.
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From the looks of things, "The Republican Party" and "The Democratic Party" were the "People in the news" the B set says they'll ask about.
What part of "As I read each name", in reference to "People in the News" make you think that they listed off "republican party" and "democrat party"?
Wow. You are seriously stretching here Joph. You don't actually buy that explanation do you?
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And just cause I'm curious. Do you know what names they read to the people answering the poll?
I don't know that they read
any. I don't see any evidence that they did.
OMFG!!!
What part of
"As I read each name, please say if you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of these people -- or if you have never heard of them." isn't evidence that they read the poll takers a list of names and had them give a response for each one?
Are you saying that the poll question lied about the question(s) they asked? I'm really curious what you think happened here...
Where is the question asking whether people view each party favorably or unfavorably Joph? At the very least, we're dealing with a massive edit, aren't we? Do you have an explanation for this, cause I'd love to hear it...
You're killing me Joph. This is beyond hysterical watching you trying to backpedal out of this...
