Pic Of The Moment: LOL GOP: Is This The Best You Can Do?

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99. oooh, a quiz! Every day is a school day here!

If it is an easily provable observation that
Polls only serve to confirm not inform,
then why do we allow people to fall prey
to such misinformation and propaganda?

Why not just tear down this blatantly misleading subterfuge?

The point of such polling ONLY serves to influence
the behaviors of people who are unaware of the
inherent bias and overt manipulation of their perceptions.

As to the "Quiz":
Such political polling is not pure "social research".
There is not intent on the part of the researchers
to discover surprising data about the subject.

Political polls such as the "Hillary is Inevitable poll"
Is ADVOCACY RESEARCH.

Advocacy research has the "agenda" to promote it's "agenda".
To that end, the polls are typically designed to reinforce
the desired "conclusion" through various biased techniques.
Those biased techniques are numerous, spanning from
sample bias, wording of questions, and speculative weighting.
That's a very short explanation.

Bottom line, polls are intended to manipulate, not inform.
Don't believe the hype!