Exposing the Real Deceivers: Why the Overhyped Hillary "Liar" Poll Is a Joke (Hill group)
I had not seen this article before. (several days old but worth a post)
Exposing the Real Deceivers: Why the Overhyped Hillary "Liar" Poll Is a Joke
August 29, 2015
ANALYSIS
By Tom Watson and Peter Daou
The Beltway commentariat was abuzz this week with the latest purported bad news about Hillary Clinton’s campaign to become America’s first woman president.
...........But there’s another obvious (and frankly, more ethically troubling) problem with Quinnipiac’s blockbuster “liar” claim. Can you spot it? The pollsters created their descriptive word clouds based on an open-ended question for each respondent. Here’s how they asked it: “What is the first word that comes to mind when you think of Hillary Clinton?”
According to Quinnipiac, 178 respondents answered “liar” in a poll that – wait for it – had 666 registered Republicans taking part. Other popular negative answers included “bitch,” “Benghazi,” and “criminal.” Of course, the Quinnipiac pollsters took pains to separate the Republican answers from the Democratic and Independent answers to make sure their report was fair, professionally ethical and represented a clear picture of general voting attitudes, right?
Wrong.
Quinnipiac lumps all the responses together and places the innocent-sounding “voters” label on the entire thing. To anyone who’s followed American politics for five minutes, the common negative answers volunteered by “voters” in the Q poll clearly come from the Republican respondents, who repeat the words from right-wing radio, Fox News, conservative pundits, and sexist organizations like American Rising.
For Quinnipiac not to break down the political ideology of the answers to the open-ended question and to present “liar” as representative of the general American voting public raises serious ethical questions about their polling work.............
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