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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:48 PM
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How many of you have seen a legitimate poll without a graph?
The latest TIME poll has no graph or visual reflecting its results. This is fishy to say the least. Both Judy Woodruff and Keith Olberman expressed doubts about the poll's legitimacy and/or accuracy. TIME could spin the results any way they want without a visual of the actual categories queried and exact resulting numbers. A visual is the most widely used tool for doing this because it is easy to understand. I don't trust a polling source that doesn't provide me with one.
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:58 PM
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1. Not to go off on a tangent, but
one of my peeviest pet peeves is when a graph or chgart is shown outside of scale.

For instance someone's poll numbers go from 48 - 51 %, but the graph starts at 45 and goes to 55, so it looks like he's doubled his support when it's only changed a tiny bit.

Sorry for detour.
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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 08:59 PM
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2. Well, at least you've got something to work with.
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-04 09:04 PM
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3. cnn also had time gal and two others
the two others questioned the poll. on msnbc they wuestioned the poll. said wuld wait and see for others
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