I suggest a few courses of action this year for the presidential elections.
Many have denounced in the past opinion polls using flawed methodology and offering unreliable and sometimes misleading results in order to boost a marketing campaign or influence the outcome on an issue. In the UK there was such a scandal a few years ago, and I'll bet it is the same thing in the US. Here is the link to the article published in The Observer:
"Lies, damn lies - and opinion polls?" A £1bn industry is accused of distorting results to produce what clients want to hear
click here
The title of the article is a reference to a 1977 book by Michael Wheeler called: "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America"
Some interesting links to investigate:
Someone comparing the different official polling organizations:
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The Pew Research Center, organization trying to monitor the behavior of Polling arms and the use of polling and statistical data (it is also the most accurate polling organization, according to the link above):
http://pewresearch.org
I had a hard time finding interesting links. Is there no one checking up on biased opinion polls and if they correspond to final electoral results, as to avoid electoral fraud? Hopefully others more informed than I am will pick up on the topic and develop it further.
This article is an excerpt of the book Destructivism, The Path to Self-Destruction, written by Roland Michel Tremblay. It is available online for free on his website:
http://www.crownedanarchist.com/destructivism.htm
First, there should be a proliferation of unbiased and independent scientific opinion polls coming from everywhere, national and local.
Second, there should be a careful comparison study of many similar opinion polls from various sources.
The sources that are clearly out of range of the others should not be considered, and instead, should be denounced publicly until everyone is aware that the opinion polls from those sources are highly biased. And then we could try to assess why they are so biased, who has to gain from those lying surveys?
"Lies, damn lies - and opinion polls?" A £1bn industry is accused of distorting results to produce what clients want to hear
click here
The title of the article is a reference to a 1977 book by Michael Wheeler called: "Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of Public Opinion in America"
Some interesting links to investigate:
Someone comparing the different official polling organizations:
click here
The Pew Research Center, organization trying to monitor the behavior of Polling arms and the use of polling and statistical data (it is also the most accurate polling organization, according to the link above):
http://pewresearch.org
I had a hard time finding interesting links. Is there no one checking up on biased opinion polls and if they correspond to final electoral results, as to avoid electoral fraud? Hopefully others more informed than I am will pick up on the topic and develop it further.
This article is an excerpt of the book Destructivism, The Path to Self-Destruction, written by Roland Michel Tremblay. It is available online for free on his website:
http://www.crownedanarchist.com/destructivism.htm
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