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Originally Posted by djacques
Your views on Jane Fonda?
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Can I give you a tip on survey/poll creation? If you are trying to skew the results to your own belief that "Jane Fonda is Good" you don't dilute "the good" Jane Fonda responses by offering multiple ones. You offer multiple responses to support "Jane Fonda is Bad" and leave off the squishy "other" one.
Let's look at the responses so far. What jumps out at you? 31 people say she's contemptible. That's what people will remember from your poll. No other single response choice comes close. I'm guessing that's not the result you seek. It appears at first glance that no one likes her. But had you combined all of the Jane Fonda is good responses to one squishy response like "Jane Fonda is okay" instead of making them various shades of the same thing --- people would walk away with a different impression because you actually have 34 people who say she's not contemptible. Had your poll results been a TV news story, however, the opinion jockeys would lead with "Voters Overwhelmingly Think Jane Fonda is Contemptible."
A great public figure all around 4
Not a great public figure, but her antiwar activism was good 12
A good public figure, but her antiwar activism went too far 7
A contempible public figure and traitor 31
Other 11
People who poll/survey do that shifty trick to achieve the result they want all of the time to make you think more people think like they do. They offer multiple responses on the opinion they DON'T want (to dilute those numbers) and one opinion on the response they do want. Then the dumbos in the media point to the results as the proof that backs up their own opinion.
If you wanted to make it look like people think Jane Fonda is good, you would have done "something like" this:
Jane Fonda is an okay person. 150
Jane Fonda's antiwar activism went too far. 50
Jane Fonda is contemptible. 60
Jane Fonda did a very bad thing. 70
The people who think she's a creep would have divvied up their response to among the last 3 choices, diluting the Jane Fonda is bad potential eye-popping result and the media would all jump on how the latest poll demonstrates that America finally forgives her (with that 150 number). It wouldn't be true but when was polling ever about the truth?
For the record, I think she's contemptible.
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I can't rep you again just yet so why don't I help shove the Repug's faces in this again
