Gallup falsifies polls. Interviewers do not read the questions verbatim

[norml]

Interviewers shorten and simplify the questions in order to complete more surveys and meet quota.

Working at Gallup you quickly learn that the reading the surveys as written, as the rules say you're supposed to do, is a suckers game.

Quality control went out the window when the greedy daughters took over the company from the old man.

Now quotas at Gallup are set so high that no honest interviewer could meet them, and those that listen in to check if you're reading the script correctly look the other way.

Next time a survey taker calls you up, ask them if they are reading the survey exactly as written.

That will freak them out.

Anymore Gallup's talk of accuracy and integrity in their surveys is just so much happy talk.

[applegrove]

1. Oh ya! As is taking a sample from 100 feet outside a polling station

and assuming that person is 1) not a liar 2)a voter because when you ask they say they are.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. You want to know what almost happened to me?

No? I'll tell you anyway. Back when I was being a thorn in city hall's side, one of the local shills (though I didn't know she was a shill at the time) asked me if I wanted a job on the side. It involved completing employee questionnaire forms. You see, they would get forms back from the employees of large corporations and tabulate the results, then give them back to the corporation. One problem. Sometimes those forms had lots of blanks on them, so My job would have involved filling in those blanks. This was BEFORE the 2000 election fiasco and before I realize that anyone would have malicious reasons to mess with these things.

Well, I told her I was interested, but my guess is that she saw me at city hall on open mike night and figured out that I would have been smart enough to catch on to what they were doing, and would have had the loud mouth to tell everyone.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Polls are just a tool of the media.....

They are used to control politicians (the ones with their fingers in the air) and our elections.

Death to the corporate polsters, I say!