Originally Posted by mrdarcy

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!