Re: Couple Surveys! Please Fill Them Out? =)

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 03:39:04 -0800, Wtcher Dragon
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>Yeah. They do that when they want people to sign off a certain way so 
>they can make up statistics. It's similar with how stuff is worded... I 
>recall a recent survey taken by the local government here which worded 
>stuff in such a way that if the majority was "yes" for a topic, they'd 
>go with it, but if it were no, they /consider/ not going with it (which 
>essentially amounted to the same thing in their case).

Speaking of government surveys, our local Congressman sends out these
little newsletters and includes a short survey with them, and includes
the results of the prior survey.  I hate them because most of the
issues are much more complicated than the simple yes or no answer.  I
remember one that asked about if we wanted such-and-such program, and
the majority said yes.  Then about 3 questions later it asked instead
that *if taxes had to be raised* to get such-and-such program if we'd
want it, and most people said no.  It was actually the same question,
but people were too dumb to realize with the first question that the
money would have to come from somewhere.



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