CNN polls are worthless.

[StageLeft]

"Did you agree with the life sentence for Andrea Yates? " 62% agree with it.

Yesterday the question was something like "Should she be put to death?" and more than half said yes. So what's the deal? These are basically the same question. People obviously interpret them quite differently. Using the poll yesterday one could argue that most people in the US are for capital punishment and today you could argue the other way based upon basically the same question.

 

[Platypus]

So is CNN...

 

[fatalbert]

<< CNN polls are worthless. >>



and so are you😛

 

[b0mbrman]

I think people just want to sound right...

"Yeah, good she only got life...I didn't want to see her die anyway"

 

[StageLeft]

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<< CNN polls are worthless. >>



and so are you😛 >>

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[Hammer]

All internet polls are worthless.

 

[Platypus]

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<< CNN polls are worthless. >>



and so are you😛 >>



and so are you 😛

 

[StageLeft]

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<< CNN polls are worthless. >>



and so are you😛 >>



and so are you 😛 >>


and so are you 😛


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OK this thread has now become "worthless" hehe

 

[fatalbert]

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<< CNN polls are worthless. >>



and so are you😛 >>



and so are you 😛 >>


and so are you 😛


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no it is still good for one thing

neffing

 

[cmdavid]

useless...

 

[vi edit]

all online based polls are worthless

 

[Laguna]

I wanted to vote for death instead of life in prison because of the cost to house someone for life, but today, I agreed with what she got. The first pole asked which one I would have preferred, and the second one asked me if I agreed with it.

Not to trivialize it, but it's like asking me:

"Which would you want, a Whopper or a Chicken sandwich?"
I want a Whopper.
"Do you agree with my decision to give you a Chicken sandwich?"
"Sure."

In truth, I would have agreed with either verdict.

 

[fatalbert]

<< I wanted to vote for death instead of life in prison because of the cost to house someone for life, but today, I agreed with what she got. The first pole asked which one I would have preferred, and the second one asked me if I agreed with it.

Not to trivialize it, but it's like asking me:

"Which would you want, a Whopper or a Chicken sandwich?"
I want a Whopper.
"Do you agree with my decision to give you a Chicken sandwich?"
"Sure."

In truth, I would have agreed with either verdict. >>



way too much thought for this thread

 

[Parrotheader]

Skoorb, you need to start a poll on whether or not CNN polls (or all online polls for that matter) are worthless.

 

[Laguna]

Oops! I'm sorry, uh...
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SO ARE YOU!🙂

 

[yellowperil]

Just wondering, is this an online poll or a scientific poll? If the poll was done correctly, i.e. random sampling, minimized confounds, it could reflect hindsight bias on the part of the American public.

 

[zephyrprime]

Don't be so down on polls or CNN, this is just the way it is when polling people. People have different opinions from day to day. To people, no question is stark black or white, they're all fuzzy.

 

[glenn1]

They are two seperate questions. One asks essentially, "what would you do if you were on the jury," the other asks "do you agree with the jury having made a different decision." I think it reflects a simple reality... a lot of folks think she deserved the death penalty and could with a clear conscience be sentenced to it, but understand completely why a jury might have reached a different verdict with a clear conscience as well, and support their carefully deliberated sentence. In short, the 62% figure is a sort of confidence poll in the jury and how it acquited itself, rather than saying they would have made the same choice had they been the one deciding Andrea Yate's ultimate fate.