"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 16:40:20 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
brought forth from the murky depths:

Polls are snapshots that reflect opinions at one instant in time. That's
all.

That's at their best. At their worst, they are poorly
worded and heavily slanted toward the obtaining the
precise results the pollster wants. Far too often they
are the latter.

That's why, if you're seriously interest in the poll, you read the
methodology -- including the questions. If you don't you just victimize
yourself.

In light of that, Zogby is catching hell lately for the way he's wording
questions. He did a poll for the Doris Day Animal League, or whatever it's
called, and came to the conclusion that 51% of Americans say that
chimpanzees have the same rights as human babies. g

He also does the polls for the NRA. As I say, read the methodology...

Ed Huntress