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Re: Rather Political Reasons; Useless Studies
Posted By: Faux Pas, on host 38.164.171.7
Date: Wednesday, January 3, 2001, at 07:12:16
In Reply To: Re: Rather Political Reasons; Useless Studies posted by gabby on Tuesday, January 2, 2001, at 21:02:42:

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> > I visit cnn.com nearly every day, and they change their reader poll at least once a day, sometimes more than that. It's fascinating to notice that the results of the polls are very often conservative/Republican. As I don't have cable, I can't say anything about the CNN television channel.
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> > Ell"Convincing myself to become a journalist again"myruh
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> Supposedly, studies show a higher number of Republicans than Democrats are online, and that the two groups' favorite sites are stereotypical: business and news for GOP, free services for Dems. I wonder how such a study would be done.
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> gab"No study has ever asked me"by

Also, online polls like the ones featured on CNN.com do not act as an accurate measure of any group.

-Faux "worked for a survey lab one summer in college" Pas