Well, I accidentally clicked Libertarian.
Though my results came Liberal but leaning slightly Libertarian.
Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security.
Replace government welfare with private charity.
These are the most egregiously slanted questions. If they’d phrased it accurately (Do you support the abolition of Social Security? Do you support the abolition of welfare programs?) they would get different results - most likely less people sucked in by the libertarian “magical hand of the free market solves all problems” bullshit. But, that would run contrary to this pollster’s agenda.
Why is it that these newcomers can make polls and nobody else can?
EDIT: I found it, is this a recent addition to the forums because I’ve never noticed it before?
Labour (Right).
Why isn’t free loving in this poll :hmph:
Haha, these questions aren’t phrased with a bias at aaaaallll.
They’re not questions, they’re statements.
I also don’t see why they’re so biased, my result came out right…
You really can’t tell? Maybe it’s because it confirms your own bias… anyway, just an example of a biased question:
“Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security.”
This falsely implies that Social Security means people can’t control their own retirement. “I don’t wan’t the Guv’ment controlling my retirement! Guess I agree with the Libertarian free market solution!” An unbiased poll would simply say “Do you support privatizing Social Security Y/N” rather than prefacing the question with a phrase designed to influence the answer. Again, that’s why they call it a “push poll” because it’s designed to ‘push’ respondents into giving the answers that the pollster wants, typically to be used to make political points.
Libertarian.
Totally liberal.
Oh yeah because I can be biased towards libertarianism when I’m not a libertarian. :S
Also @ your example, only an incredible fool would think that way, but then again, maybe that is you.
I’m assuming by the irrelevancy of your response that you can comprehend the point I made, so I’ll leave it at that.
Fuck you, you arrogant snob.
No need to flame people just because you posted a link to a biased poll, buddy.
I said that because what you said doesn’t make sense, only if everyone that does such a poll is a fool.
Edit: And you annoy me.
Don’t worry. He annoys most of the forum.
Centrist. I feel incredibly indecisive and hypocritical of myself at the moment.
Libertarian. Entirely on the left edge and almost at liberal.
What about it doesn’t make sense? Your poll adds extraneous comments to the questions, which prove it’s lack of objectivity. I have no idea what about that is confusing you, but if you really want to figure out what multiple people here are telling you about poll bias, I suggest you adopt a better attitude rather than flaming people over your own ignorance.