Stupidity in polling at CNN
CNN is currently running a poll that asks a yes or no question, but the problem is in the way it’s phrased. Behind the “no” answer lies multiple other answers that are diametrically opposed in their core values, One, that someone believes these people don’t deserve any form of trial at all, the other that they believe they deserve a normal civilian structure to their trial. Those two could easily skew the results to make it look like something totally different is being said, depending on how you, as the poll writer, interpret the values.
An example of why polling is such a dangerous thing, and how agendas can easily be slipped into the poll without those reading it knowing. While I realize that this is just a quick poll, it wouldn’t take much to structure it as 3 answers, rather than 2.
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