Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Not a very close call

When faced with these kind of “commissioned” surveys delivering favourable results for the organisation which commissioned it, I tend to take the findings with a pinch of salt- especially when there appears to be no link to the actual survey itself, still:

90% of Welsh electorate wanting Wales to remain part of the United Kingdom sounds healthy enough figure to be going on with and is one that doesn’t really leave itself open to misinterpretation or statistical error.

3 comments:

Hen Ferchetan said...

And 85% wanting devolution to remain or increase ;-)

O'Neill said...

And yet another survey being interpreted any way the reader wants it, I really don't know why they bother with them anymore.

Hen Ferchetan said...

I think that's the whole point of them, to let the commissioner say it supports their viewpoint!