A Liberal Study is a Sloppy Study.

After more then a year of no posts its time to get back into things, with so many things happening it was hard to do what I would have liked to do, but now is the time to get back in to the political area in blogging. So with that out of the way its to the point of this post.

A liberal study by Fairleigh Dickinson University has been released that states that media sources have an impact on the number of questions that people were able to answer correctly, with Fox News viewers doing poorly answering correctly only 1.04 "domestic" questions correctly vs a NPR listener they would be expected to answer 1.51 "both groups" of questions correctly. You can find a link to the study in a PDF format here. Read or scan it to see the big question they forgot to ask.


So I now call BS and shenanigans on this story, they ask “Americans now have more ways than ever before to get their news about politics and world affairs. I’m going to read you a list of news sources. As I read the list, just say “yes” if you got news from that source any time in the past week.” but don’t ask the logical follow up question of how many hours of said source did you watch. Every payed or rewards survey I have ever done (well over a hundred with at least 1/3 on what you watched on television) have asked that very follow up question. It does you no good to ask over a thousand participants of a survey if they have watched the news any time during the week and then jump right to the questions on current events with out knowing if they have watched one, five, twenty, or more hours of news during that week.

What if the democrats watched forty hours of msnbc while the republicans only watched five hours of Fox News that week. That would be like putting a five hundred pound man up against an Olympic athlete in a race and then locking two five hundred pound ball & chains to the Olympic athlete's legs and calling it a fair race, its not. But we can't answer that question since they "forgot" to ask it. Also considering if they had bothered to survey the occupied nuts while they were protesting would have failed it like a North Korean Missile. And lastly considering how many conservatives like me consider time equals money I suspect that they probably called more conservatives who refused to do their stupid survey.

To me it just goes to show a private company can do something better, even in asking questions.

Solomon