Check out today's poll on FoxNews.com
Going It Alone
Could the U.S. wage a war in Iraq without British assistance?
Yes, we don't need them.
No, we need all the support we can get.
The wording is a little weird here. The answers are twisted a bit, mixing a positive "Yes" and a negative "we don't need them."
The reason I picked up on it is I read the answers without really looking at the question. When I skimmed the question, I read "Do we need British assistance?" the answer to which is "No." But by wording the question the way they did, the answer is "Yes, we don't need them."
The way the question is framed leads you to the positive response (Yes), even though that response is negative (we don't need them).
It makes me wonder about Yes-No questions on polls. Is there any bias towards a "yes" answer, regardless of the question? If so, was this question framed to take advantage of that bias?
Any pollsters out there with info, please comment.
Posted by Rich at March 12, 2003 11:17 AM | TrackBack