Posted on 04/16/2007 2:57:37 PM PDT by Karl Rand
Pew judged the levels of knowledgeability (correct answers) among those surveyed and found that those who scored the highest were regular watchers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show and Colbert Report. They tied with regular readers of major newspapers in the top spot -- with 54% of them getting 2 out of 3 questions correct. Watchers of the Lehrer News Hour on PBS followed just behind.
Virtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News. Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly. Fox topped only network morning show viewers.
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I think they are re-rigging their rigging.
The survey is biased. Frankly Roberts is probably a conservative, but he hasn't really proven one way or another yet. I also could consider Roberts a moderate, but the survey counts it as "wrong". Also the question about Iraqi civilians being killed is ridiculous. Is a "civilian" one who is shooting at our helicopters with an RPG? Or just an innocent waif being massacred by the eeeeevil US military?
**’Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert’**
Who are they?
I don’t watch them! LOL! </sarcasm off
Ditto. I got 7. Didn’t know about the stupid minimum wage question!!!!
— Joe
91% here.
LOl! I got the minimum wage question wrong.
Answer the "Did the Senate, the House, Both or Neither pass minimum wage legislation?" wrong (the answer is both), and it doesn't come back to to ask you what the minimum wage was. But it marks you WRONG about the question it doesn't ask you.
The first time thru I pulled a 96% (one off), the second time I threw that min wage question and thus got TWO more off -- a 77%.
Strange that Stewart/Colbert are ranked above Major Newspaper Websites. They had the same number of high knowledge viewers, but since S/C had more low knowledge viewers shouldn’t they have been ranked lower rather than higher?
No surprise that an AP article is very unclear about how many questions were asked. "Only 1 in 3 could answer 2 out of 3 questions correctly"? Not only is that an idiotic sentence but it implies that there were only 3 questions. And don't get me started on the ratio vs. percentage. Ratio stats are so often manipulated so that a reporter can claim that if 60% agree on some issue the copy writer will often take the liberty by stating "nearly 2 in 3 voters..." giving the false impression that 66% agreed. Of course the truth could still have been noted while still using a ratio - "6 in 10 agree..."
The percentage of those who knew their state's governor dropped to 2 in 3. Almost half know that Rep. Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House and 2 in 3 know that Condi Rice is secretary of state. But just 29% can identify Scooter Libby, 21% know Robert Gates and 15% can name Sen. Harry Reid.
To take the last point further the governor sticks with the "thirding ratio" while the Pelosi question is noted as "half" (so is that 2.5 of 5 or 5 of 10). Then the switch to percentages for Libby, Gates, and Reid. The Gates results are no surprise, the Libby a little surprising but the Reid results are unbelieveable (Fox News viewers don't know this?-Right!) and put the rest of the results in perspective. In fact when you take this particular paragraph you see an intermingling of all group results. Virtually bringing up the rear were regular watchers of Fox News.
How convenient that the writer fails to note that the network morning shows ranked lower.
Lastly - there is no link to the actual survey so it was up to one of our industrious Freepers to provide a link. What one finds is that there are in essense 16 sub-groups being polled and each asked 23 questions. That is to evenly weight all 16 sub-groups the polsters needed to ferret out a tad under 94 people per news source. As we know a standard poll is a tad over 1,000 with generally three respondents (R, D, I) with variations (agree, disagree, not sure OR agree, strongly agree, disagree, strongly disagree etc.) so in my final analysis...humor doesn't mean the truth is told but makes news figure/facts more memorable and...this is a bunch of meaningless crock.
Stewart used to be funny, but he’s lost his edginess.
Colbert is funny, and has a different delivery. Better that Stewart, IMO.
I understand that a lot of lefty libs believe these shows are real news programs. Just shows how utterly moronic they are.
I answered 9 out of 9 correctly too and I never watch TV. I only read FR.
Question 5 was asked only of respondents who correctly answered the preceding question about minimum wage legislation. If you answered the minimum wage legislation question incorrectly, the follow-up question was not asked.
This was the one question I got wrong (I thought only the House passed it but forgot that the Senate did too and they are in the process of reconciling) but because I did I wasn't asked a follow-up question and thus got 2 wrong. That undermines the whole test by creating a 2-for-1 on arguably the trickiest question ("Did Hillary announce?" - give me a break). In fact shouldn't the "How many soldiers have been killed?" been a qualifier for the "Have more Iraqi civilians or US soldiers died?"?
This a WORTHLESS POLL with an agenda ("Is John Roberts a L,M or C?"; "Hillary running?"; "More or less civilians or soldiers", etc)
“What does a yellow light mean?”
Slow down.
Whaaat dooooes a yeeeeeelloooooowwww....
Oh, and:
Thank you for taking our News IQ quiz. You correctly answered 8 out of the 9 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public.
I must be another Fox News idiot - 96th percentile. Survey must have been run by Pepi LaPew, because it really stinks.
I was going to post a link to this test that I ran across while surfing Townhall.com. Luckily, instead of simply posting a new thread, I searched for "PEW" and found the 2+ week old post.
So anyway, hooray for me for not re-posting, and bumparoonie!
By the way, I scored 9 outta 9. You don't think I'd post a new thread if I scored the same as the common schlep?
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