Bad metrics, no biscuit!

I think I just took the worst written opinion poll ever created in the history of polling. Now, to back this up, I studied survey and questionnaire design in college as a psych major. Now, I never did do any graduate studies, and I was perhaps not the best of students, but I do like to believe that I know something about data-gathering and creating this sort of instrument. And I would also like to think that the major polling organizations would know something about it, too. And yet.
( The false assumption, the double-bind, and other ways to spend a lot of money to get crap data... )

( EDIT: My letter to Zogby Interactive, in which I am probably too high-handed. But what do you want? Not enough caffeine yet for proper politeness. )

Bad metrics, no biscuit!

I think I just took the worst written opinion poll ever created in the history of polling. Now, to back this up, I studied survey and questionnaire design in college as a psych major. Now, I never did do any graduate studies, and I was perhaps not the best of students, but I do like to believe that I know something about data-gathering and creating this sort of instrument. And I would also like to think that the major polling organizations would know something about it, too. And yet.
( The false assumption, the double-bind, and other ways to spend a lot of money to get crap data... )

( EDIT: My letter to Zogby Interactive, in which I am probably too high-handed. But what do you want? Not enough caffeine yet for proper politeness. )

While we're on the subject of gender and information-gathering...

[Poll #650071]

While we're on the subject of gender and information-gathering...

[Poll #650071]