Well, looky here:
Massive New Poll: 56% of Canadians Oppose Morgentaler Order of Canada
Poll called 157,115 Canadian households, yielding over 13,000 respondents
Commissioned by the fetus fetishists, the poll asked this question: ‘Do you believe abortionist Henry Morgentaler deserves the Order of Canada? Press 1 for Yes Press 2 for No’
That’s nice and neutral, innit?
It’s all nice and sciency, too.
This KLRVU poll was conducted by touchtone technology which polls households across Canada. Using this technology with the voice of a professional announcer all respondents heard the questions asked identically. In theory, with the stated sample size, one can say with 95% certainty that the results would not vary by more than the stated margin of sampling error, in one direction or the other. There are other possible sources of error in all surveys that may be more serious than theoretical calculations of sampling error. These include refusals to be interviewed, question wording and question order, weighting by demographic control data and the manner in which respondents are filtered (such as, determining who is a likely participant). It is difficult to quantify the errors that may result from these factors.
So, in other words, more than 90% of households either didn’t care one way or the other or were offended by the question. Or had some other reason for NOT PRESSING either either one or two.
Massive. Yeah, massively not interested.
UPPITY-DATE: Hop over to Unrepentant Old Hippie to follow JJ’s detective work on the polling company, which seems not to exist, not to have a phone number, or something.
MORE UPPITY-DATE: JJ is still on the case. And it’s getting even weirder.
LATER: And weirder.
“Sciencey” is right, and chock full of truthiness too (TM Stephen Colbert). A telephone poll based on self-selection, i.e. just as close to pure bum-wipe as the average Internet poll. Progress Marches On!
I usually hang up when I answer my phone and hear, in response to my Bonjour? “technology with the voice of a professional announcer” and I always wondered if most people did the same. Now I know.
HAHAHAHAHA! I was just about to blog this and while doing a preliminary google search of KLRVU, there you was!
Sad to say, any poll commissioned by an anti-choice group is immediately suspect and automatically fails the credibility test. The two (2) polling companies that came up with the 66% support figure were doing the research for their own info, not at the behest of someone with an agenda. That’s real results.
Sorry fetus fetishists, around here we compare apples with apples.
I wonder how many little kids answered the phone and either mashed a random button or hung up
Too funny. Sciencey indeed…
@’lance –
self-selection hows that! did u read the press release or just a short quote from another blog.
that’s all nothing to imflammintory here.
They keep trying. It’s hard to resist the temptation when you see people digging holes that deep, to come along and start putting the dirt back in, while they’re still in it of course.
deBeauxOs, Oh no, not at all, and it’s not like they’re pre-born. (why do I get a creeping sense the fetishists would like that term?)
I’ll bet if there was a spare shovel you wouldn’t stand by and let me do all the work myself.
Bruce. They do use the expression pre-born.
I suggested that the fetus fetishists were channeling the post-dead, that is, those long deceased Order of Canada recipients who, it is claimed, are returning their medal in protest through the outraged no-choicers.
I always have a spare shovel around, just in case ….
An 8% or so return rate from a telephone poll? And note the snarl-word “abortionist.” Nope, no skewing there. Right.
Your hed is right on, by the way.
Bless the blogosphere for rapid detective work. This one ought to be hanged, drawn and quartered.
I noticed that the blue-haired blue-blooded all-capitalized blue-stocking is waving her blue flag and sniffing in disdain at your and JJ’s posts and opinions. She’s listing all kinds of reasons why it looks like most Canadians don’t give a shit. All but the real reason: that they really don’t give a shit!
Her claim is that the “poll” cannot lightly be dismissed. Maybe “dismissed” is the wrong term. Maybe it should just be drop kicked and punted.
Blue-haired – Bellowing Bellicose Wingnut (BBW) is not.
She’s still fertile and proud of it and popping them out for the Pope.
Ah, but I wasn’t referring to her age and degree of fertility. I was making a very obscure reference to the fact that normal people that get inadvertently caught in the centrigugal force of her little circlet of influence would tend to vocalize obscenities until they are released. The effect of such scatology would turn anyone’s hair blue after awhile…