Teaching in the Psychological Sciences digest wrote:
Various messages of various lengths.
Is there a hint of prejudice against Christians here? Assuming that someone who is a
strongly believing Christian is ipso facto going to be in some way dishonest is as
ridiculous as assuming that
Mea culpa, David. I don't know where my politically correct mind was when I
posted that unnecessary last comment. I think a little bit of hostility
against certain rather whacko family members was creeping in. Geez, there's
bias everywhere I look! (In the mirror...)
Please accept my apology
My personal experience has been that
fundamentalists feel they are behaving immorally if they fail to do whatever
is necessary to promote Christianity.
While fundamentalists may believe wholeheartedly in promoting their
belief system, they would be ironically behaving immorally in doing
Title: Gallup, fundamentalism and biasing
I was curious about this Annette, so did a little research. George Gallup, of Gallup Poll fame, died in 1984 (he was 83), so that precludes any present personal biasing of results. However...
A look at the Gallup Organization's website (www.gallup.com
Beth Benoit wrote:
I was curious about this Annette, so did a little research. George Gallup, of
Gallup Poll
fame, died in 1984 (he was 83), so that precludes any present personal biasing of
results.
Well, only if you're one of those atheistic, death-is-the-end-of-it-all types.
Quoting Beth Benoit [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does this mean he biases the questions in the Gallup polls? A very good
question.
Thanks for your time and effort! Wow! I was hoping for an off the top of the
head quick answer.
Ok, so I guess I was thinking along the lines of sampling--can it be
Absolutely. DO they? We'd like to think not. But besides the possibility
of stratification and clustering biases, it's certainly within the realm of
possibility to word a question in a leading manner.
I suspect that Gallup is generally better than that, but I haven't made any
effort to examine
Beth Benoit wrote:
I challenge TIPSters to keep a critical eye on poll questioning (even not
from Gallup), and let's see what we can find.
A reliable source of bad questions is netscape.com, which has a
different poll everyday, each as bad as today's:
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Poll:
Should
