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Hooray for bad polling questions

by Hanlon on September 12, 2006 at 9:00 pm

Got this one via ThinkProgress. There’s a poll out there in the New York Sun that shows “most people dislike the United Nations”. Now, while TP rather effectively debunks that crap, what I’d like to look at is the question itself:

Fifty-seven percent of the 800 telephone interviewees said they “agree” that if “the U.N. cannot be reformed and made more effective, it should be scrapped altogether and a more effective international organization should take its place.”

Gotta love really, really skewed polling questions. I’ve got one for them.

Agree or disagree: Unless George Bush can demonstrate that he has a brain larger than a walnut, he has to sit in the corner and think about what he’s done until the 2008 election.

[tags]surveys, polls, united nations, media[/tags]

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