Posted on 03/19/2006 2:47:05 PM PST by TASMANIANRED
For the second time in as many weeks I have been pushed polled by DCI. Gary being the name of the automaton.
1) Do you think 6 US ports should be purchased by an Arab firm? 2)Is the execution of Morales by lethal injection cruel and unusual? 3)??????? 4)Are you concerned about rising health care costs? 5) Have I changed driving habits as a result of rising gasoline costs?
Question number one reflects a falsehood. I was polled on if I had assimilated a lie.
Since I know the Dubai firm was purchasing operating facilities that represented only a tiny part of a port rather than the whole port, I answered yes.
Question number 2 also relies on complete ignorance to answer.
Being a nurse, I know the drugs used to induce unconsciousness prior to execution are the same drugs used to induce anesthesia prior to surgery. There are millions of individual surgeries done in the US each year. The number of times a patient reports being awake are rare enough to constitute news.
In 20 years of hospital nursing and having provided post- op care to thousands of patients, I have never seen it occur .
Question is bogus.
Question #3 was skipped for some unknown reason. I can only assume that my answers to number 1 and 2 were not leading in the direction the poll was intended to go.
Question 4. I'm not afraid of rising health care costs because I have a health care savings account and have had for 3 years. I love it. I wish it had been available 20 years ago.
Question 5. I drive where I need to go. Always have, always will until death or the end of the internal combustion engine.
No questions about registered voter, probable voter or party affiliation.
My question and the purpose of this vanity.
Is this part of the equation in how the polls are cooked?
We know part is leading questions?
Question 1 and 2 establish you level of being informed, or your level of having swallowed the MSM hook line and sinker.
#3 is the Money question.
Questions 4 and 5 give indications of your level of fear and your expectation of a big government solution.
They can legitimately claim that 10,000 Americans were polled and 62% of them think bla-bla about question 3 when all or a majority of those likely to oppose the pollsters position on question 3 are eliminated by simply skipping the question.
Is this how MSM is coming up with the majority of Americans are opposed to the War in Iraq and then peace demonstrations can't attract enough attendees to fill a medium sized theater for a free movie?
Any other experiences like this among FReepers.
Who is DCI?
That's what I wanted to know.
I tried to do a little research and the only thing that I could come up with was a polling company out of Arizona.
Don't know if it is the same one or not.
I generally refuse polls
pinging the gang - and some special guests. perhaps some of them can answer.
I always answer polls and give them the most confounding answers.
Do you think it's a good idea for Bush to sell our sensitive port security operations to Arabs?
America has lost thoundsands of soldiers in Iraq, which Bush admits had nothing to do with 9-11. Do you think this is good or bad?
Do you favor Bush spying on innocent Americans' phone calls?
New York Times experts said recently that our economy is the worst it's been in over 750 years. Under Clinton, the economy was at its best since the creation of time. Based on these facts, who do you think did a better job for the economy?
Etc.
Sounds like you write headlines for those guys!
Cut it out!!
Mostly not. You may read Gallup and Zogby and Rasmussen and Harris's web pages. They discuss their methodology.
The poll you described is a "push" poll as you describe. It is not legitimate as a method of getting results. The primary idea of push polls is to change the mind of the pollee.
You must be very healthy. It's not so easy (even if one has a use-it-or-lose-it health account) to afford simple health care. (Insurance helps.) Even things like having a polyp screened for cancer is around $1500. The colonoscopy and anethesia and OR rental are extra; that's just for the tissue analysis.
I actually took it out of curiosity.
I intended to answer contrary to the intent of the question no matter what.
I thought this thing fell into limbo.
How did you find it?
My intentions exactly.
it popped up in my sidebar
Do you think one of those was the one "too sensitive" to ask?
The insurance covers major medical only with a high deductable.
The rest isn't use it or loose it.
I've had out patient surgery and was very pleased with the amount they paid.
Are those things tailored. I didn't see it on mine.
Gonna have to go take a quick look.
*shrugs*
I dunno
Not there.
The left is on full tilt to try and take back the House and Senate....expect more of this type of polling from their supporters and continuous MSM articles about rifts in the Republican party, Bush losing support, etc.
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