Indeed. Kind of.
Here’s a link to the survey in question. It’s a pdf document, so let me extract the wording of the question at hand (it’s on page 20):
Note that the poll question does not ask if the respondant believes outsourcing “contributed to economic sluggishness;” it only asks if the respondant thinks outsourcing occurs.
Moral of the story: be careful about believing reported poll results without actually seeing the raw questions (and even then be cautious).
Hell, I’d ‘Strongly Agree’ with that question as asked too.
-XT
Yea…I feel the same way about all those people lambasting slavery in the 1850’s. What one trick ponies.
They had message boards in the 1850’s?? Wow…I never knew that.
-XT
Right! And investing overseas is totally equivalent to owning people.
It was Ye Olde Message Board - an actual board in the town square where people could post messages.
Is it just me, or is anyone else reading the title as “Most Americans oppose offspring…” ?
I’m old…
If only the OP were anywhere as near interesting as, say, Frederick Douglass.
Mr. Douglass was not a one-trick pony. Nor was he boring. Nor was he woefully under-informed. Nor did he pretend to ignore anyone who didn’t agree with him. Nor did he devote the majority of the content of his speeches and writings to making up vulgar names for people.
So, what is your point?
Are you saying that Frederick Douglass never used descriptive terms like ‘boypussy’ or ‘turd burglar’?? Seriously??? :eek: Leaving aside the incredible assertion that FD knew what he was talking about, I find it hard to believe that he never used his ignore feature or even called someone a blockhead!
-XT
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. Shut up, turd burglar. I’m ignoring all boypussys. Blockhead Lincoln was a brain dead retarded conservative. gonzomax would have freed the slaves earlier. 90% of people are Americans according to the latest poll, which demolishes everyone’s argument that has ever existed anywhere. I’m winning this debate on slavery because I can’t hear you. :rolleyes: Where is your reading comprehension, blockhead? There is not a corporation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than taking the job of the white man. Nobody can defeat my arguments. I’m ignoring you, pussy blockhead pussy.”
Absolutely moving stuff, that.
You’re reading it incorrectly. The lead-in statement does ask if the various activities being asked about (like outsourcing) is a source of why the ecomony “continues to struggle and more people are not being hired”. It’s right there in the part you quoted.
You forgot “it is all the fault of those darn Chinese”, but soul-stirring nonetheless.
Or is it “shit-stirring”?
Never mind - just “stirring”.
Regards,
Shodan
No it doesn’t. The lead-in simply says that other people have said a particular activity affects the economy. The question is then if you agree with the statement read, not if you agree that the statement read affects the economy.
Example: I will repeat a statement others have made about some of the reasons the country’s economy continues to struggle and more people are not being hired. Please tell me if you agree or disagree with this statement:
Agree or disagree?
Disagree.
See? I disagree because the sky being blue has nothing to do with our economic situation.
The question doesn’t ask if the sky being blue has anything to do with our economic situation. The question is if you agree or disagree with the statement.
No, that makes no sense. If that were true, there would be no reason for the preamble. If you were correct, the instructions would simply be: Please tell me if you agree or disagree with this statement:
I don’t know why the preamble was made, but I’m with zut – the survey clearly asks a question (do you agree that offshoring occurs?) without direct reference to effects on the economy. This is the sort of thing they pay pollsters for, writing unambiguous questions, and if they wanted your interpretation they would have written it clearly.
The answer to a question such as “Some people say that the sky being blue causes recessions. Do you agree with this statement: The sky is blue?” is clearly “yes”. How could it not be?
What earthly reason would there be for a pollster to simply ask if outsourcing exists? Of course it does. It makes as much sense as having a poll asking if the sky is blue.
Now, if you want to argue that the poll is poorly worded, I’d agree. But I can’t believe it was a poll given to determine if people believe outsourcing exists. That would be stupid and pointless.
You’d have to ask them. I can only say two things: first, that I would have strongly agreed, despite not believing that offshoring contributes to a sluggish economy; second, that “badness” is not implicit in the other statements on that list. It would be strange for if we are to append “… and this is bad” to just this one statement.
(If your wife walked up to you and said “Some people say that love is too much trouble than it’s worth. But I think you love me. Do you agree?” – would you say “I disagree!”)
Also, note that the poll asks more than just true or false. If they just wanted to know if you think X is true, they wouldn’t ask if you “strongly agree” that X is true.
The sky is blue.
Do you strongly agree, slightly agree, disagree or don’t know.
Huh? How would you “slightly agree” whether the sky is blue or not.