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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
What are your opinions on this study? [snip] Do you think its findings are accurate or biased?
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Knowledge Networks, which constructed the instrument and did the sampling for this survey is recognized for their sound methodologies. However this survey is entirely skewed.
Let’s say, as a hypothetical example, that the world population has an opinion of, say, 51% in favor of a subject. (A ridiculous statement on its face, but bare with me)
And lets say that group A perceives this world opinion to be 45% and group B perceives this world opinion to be 95%. While both groups are wrong in their perception of world opinion, group B is much farther from the facts.
Now let’s create an instrument that purports to measure this difference.
What if we ask a significant sampling of each group the following question:
“Is world opinion today greater than 50% or less than 50%?” The results should be that a significant number or respondents from group A would say “less than 50%” and likewise group B would say “greater than 50%.”
We then call a press conference and announce our findings.
GROUP A IS SIGNFICANTLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH WORLD OPINION ON THIS ISSUE!