tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post2184130818047631589..comments2023-10-14T05:50:19.314-04:00Comments on Making Sense with Nicholls: Beware Public PollsGerry Nichollshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10496716615185797501noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-87977405214563017212011-09-21T20:55:54.235-04:002011-09-21T20:55:54.235-04:00Last spring, during the federal elections, I actua...Last spring, during the federal elections, I actually took the time to graph the various polls superimpose the plots. (yeah, I do this sort of thing a lot..)<br /><br />It soon became clear that there were very definite, quantifiable trends. <br /><br />It became obvious which polls favoured what political parties - and the differences were consistent, so there could have been a bias due to polling demographic selection rather than ideology of the pollsters - I do not know the reasons. Which still does not alter the fact that the polls each shows definite 'favouring', intentional or not.Xanthippahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00896441894876745028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-2840948750893310352011-09-15T10:41:57.039-04:002011-09-15T10:41:57.039-04:00Commercials have more credibility than Political p...Commercials have more credibility than Political polls.Randy Crosshttp://www.noliberals.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859678.post-16857055265174561802011-09-15T10:28:13.439-04:002011-09-15T10:28:13.439-04:00TV ads do work. For years, Mcguinty has been usin...TV ads do work. For years, Mcguinty has been using tax dollars to pay for windspin TV ads. The urban public has been brainwashed into thinking that wind turbines are wonderful. The public knows nothing of the real cost, inefficiency and unreliability of wind turbines. They think that coal is "dirty" without ever knowing real numbers or technology to reduce emissions. I would like to see all advertising, paid with tax dollars eliminated but as long as the Liberals run the show in Queens Park, they will continue to brainwash the public.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com