----- Original Message ----- From: "Roderick Urquhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2001-04-24 05:59 Subject: [ukma] Quality of Webpolls > Recently I have begun to wonder whether people who fill out webpolls really > read the questions. > > I was astonished that in last week's Daily Telegraph the majority supported > the Dutch Euthanasia laws. > > Today I was astonished that most Evening Standard readers plan to ignore Ken > Livingstone's plea NOT to support the May Day anarchist demo. > > The question (see http://www.thisislondon.co.uk:80/html/news.html) was > > "Will you stay away from the May Day Monopoly protest as Mayor Ken has > urged?" > > I expect that the majority of the respondents read the question as > > "Do you support the May Day Monopoly protest?" > > That is the only explanation I have for the 83% YES response. I really > wonder if people read the questions properly. > > When polls were done on the Thoburn case I often thought that the questions > would be different according to how it was phrased e.g. I would expect quite > different answers for the following questions: > > 1. Do you think grocers should be punished for selling goods in pounds? > > 2. Do you think that grocers should follow a standard system of measurement? > > 3. Do you support the requirement to show metric pricing in shops? > > 4. Do you support the use of price/lbs in shops? > > 5. Do you support a transition of the UK to the metric system? > > I was worried that quite a few people who would say NO to Q1 might also say > YES to Q5. Now I wonder if any of these quick polls have much validity. > > Roddy > > To my surprise > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > #>- Subscription Options; -<# > #>- http://list.to/srv/SubOpt?id=_3rQpacvqSYtzWnzv+uZIywA8YKXkpvU9?= -<# > > UK Metrication Association > http://www.metric.org.uk > Messages posted on the list should not be reproduced without permission. > Mailinglist WWW Archive; > http://list.to/srv/WebArchive?id=_y+MuWw+gZOn1ZWUJ6zhcYw= > > Advertisement; > Sporty Baby Boxers - fashion over-nappy wear for sporty babies. > http://www.stampsau.com.au/sport_box.html > >
