Polls Are Done to Manufacture Public Opinion - Not to Reflect It

[Solomon]

That is all.

"Tavestock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political, and Economic Decline of The United States of America."


Page v.


(Note the title - you read it right - "Shaping the Moral.... Decline..."

[knowbody0]

1. the thought police are paid well

[polichick]

2. Exactly right - just another way to fool the sheeple.

[aquart]

4. Maybe we could be more persuasive if we didn't have such contempt for our fellow citizens?

"Sheeple" is a degrading and dehumanizing expression. It reeks of contemptuous superiority.

[polichick]

7. I meant that's how the manipulators see us.

[polichick]

12. But, the truth is many Americans are sheeple...

...when it comes to being manipulated and used.

[Blue Owl]

3. Word

:kick:

[aquart]

5. Ah. A definitive opinion from a single source.

That clinches the matter.

[Solomon]

11. Well, If I had more time I'd get you more sources.

Particularly Edward Bernays.

[damntexdem]

6. Well, that depends on who pays for them. And those with money to pay for them tend to be ...

;-)

And, of course, it depends both on how the polls are conducted and how they are reported, by the pollsters and by the media:
http://www.thisweekinsociology.com/?p=225

[Robb]

8. Wait. Even the polls that confirm my biases?

Can't I just at least believe in those?!? :D

[pacalo]

9. Ding! Ding! Ding!

We're catching on!

[Viking12]

10. Another useful perspective

Constructing Public Opinion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvodhsMc2QM

Constructing public opinion: how political elites do what they like and why ...
By Justin Lewis
http://books.google.com/books?id=YfePg8ls088C&printsec=frontcover&dq=lewis+constructing+public+opinion&source=bl&ots=1S4qgN6lF9&sig=MDcxDyxjNtK3dCD9CNUYFz-xMVc&hl=en&ei=WLaUTemyPKOB0QGq1ozlCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false