DeadCanDance
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- May 29, 2007
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if the pollsters - Gallup and Harris, for example - who have been fixtures in American public opinion polling for decades - were caught fudging the data, they would be out of business. when they say that the data is normalized, it is. YOu can chose to disbeliever them, I guess...but do you disbelieve the newscast when it reports the DJIA? If nothing is trustworthy, then neither are you. In this thread, the actual questions are there to see.
The researchers who work for Gallup and Harris get PhDs and Master's degrees in statistics, probability modeling, and polling methods. You, I or anyone else on this board is about as qualified to judge polling methods, as we are to judge orthoscopic surgery.
If Gallup and Harris were involved in a massive conspiracy to propagandize, or if their were even merely incompetent in designing fair and impartial polls, they would lose all their corporate clients.