
Johns Hopkins has once more beclowned itself as a purveyor of agenda driven “junk science” [More]
If we can’t believe prohibitionist gunquacks, who can we believe?
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Johns Hopkins has once more beclowned itself as a purveyor of agenda driven “junk science” [More]
If we can’t believe prohibitionist gunquacks, who can we believe?
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Like I said under the last post mentioning the new Johns Hopkins survey, the devil is in the details, and how survey questions are worded matters a great deal in controlling the outcome.
There’s also a technique known as “push polling” where questions are not so much intended to get the target person’s opinion, but to plant ideas into their consciousness and/or to shape their attitude in preparations for subsequent questions. And I specifically chose the word “target” because nowadays the person being polled is being targeted by the pollster more often than not.
That is just another reason why the order of questions asked can have an impact in addition to how each question might be worded.
Polling can be an art form as much as a science. Pollsters who can deliver the results desired by the entity paying for the poll to be conducted can find the industry quite lucrative. Just ask Frank Luntz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
https://www.apdoo.org/judyweiss/Luntz%20words%20that%20work.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbfNu6WiS0w
Why do I think his work should be familiar to every American gun owner?
He’s the man who convinced the Left to give up on the phrase “gun control” and start talking about “common sense gun safety.”
In short, Luntz is as dangerous in his own way as any gang banger or car jacker.