Study: What Kind of Voter Is Most Susceptible When Pols Pile It High and Deep?

[Kinser79]

The morality of the method isn't the problem, I don't think a voluntary survey could have such problems, rather it is the smallness of the sample size or have you not been reading the posts in this thread? Or do you simply nut understand that when one conducts surveys that sample size is of paramount importance.

With a sample size of 200 one person sways the figures 0.5%. 20 people sway the figure a full 10%. Standard deviations usually rest in the 2.5-5% range, so merely finding 12 people in this study who are incredibly stupid skews the numbers by one full standard division.

Of course we are talking about statistics here which requires a minimum knowledge of basic maths, so....