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Polls - a question for Mike
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- From: Ruth Weiner <rfweine@sandia.gov>
- Date: 10 Sep 1998 14:19:39 -0600
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This is a serious question, and not an attempt to pull your chain.
You say you don't want to publish "unscientific" poll results. How do
you, or how does AP, determine whether a poll is scientific or not?
Suppose that an "activist group" issues a press release saying that
their polls show that 65% of those polled want to shut down a
particular nuclear power plant immediately. Does AP investigate who
was polled, what questions they were asked, in what sequence the
questions were asked, how those polled were selected, and so on?
Clearly only my own opinion.
Ruth Weiner
rfweine@sandia.gov
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