Gun Control Thread- Should we?

[Giantone]

Again posting in the gun control thread,I guess these are lies also.


Poll shows huge support for new gun control measures





Poll: Marylanders strongly support gun-control proposals - The Washington Post

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by Giantone

Again posting in the gun control thread,I guess these are lies also.


Poll shows huge support for new gun control measures

As someone once said of Ipsos (who did the poll for Reuters) Nevertheless, particularly when a poll produces what appears to be an outlying result, as the recent Ipsos poll did, reporters and analysts should treat it with suspicion and consider whether the discrepancies are explained by questionable methodology. Too often these outlier polls receive more attention precisely because their results are surprising or unexpected, but they usually deserve less.

A bit like this poll, but wouldn't tout it as a serious source either:

Fox News poll: Twice as many favor more guns over banning guns to reduce crime

Originally Posted by Giantone

Poll: Marylanders strongly support gun-control proposals - The Washington Post

The poll from the WaPo was done by OpinionWorks, a notoriously biased Left wing joke.

It would be like me running a poll to see how many people on Warpath think you're a lying douchbag, and only asking myself.

OMFG! 100% of people asked said Giantone is a lying douchebag!

Also, the lady started a ****ing Facebook page. Way to be an activist!

You made it sound like I was mocking the victims, which was your ploy, it failed, you're a lying douchebag. Polls don't lie, right?

GTFOOH!

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

It would be like me running a poll to see how many people on Warpath think you're a lying douchbag, and only asking myself.

OMFG! 100% of people asked said Giantone is a lying douchebag!

Actually in order to properly sensationalize it your summary should be "OMFG! 100% of Warpathers said Giantone is a lying douchebag!" . As seen here:

The poll, mostly taken before Obama released his recommendations, found 74 percent of Americans favor a ban on assault weapons, with 26 percent opposed.

And im not too sure an online poll (wtf is an online poll???) of 559 American (cause its hard to get people to take polls online) represent the the prevailing attitude of all Americans. Although, the poll is within 4.7% of Ipsos's propierty "creditability interval" (wtf is a creditability interval and why dont stastical probabilities apply to Ipsos's polls????).

A ban on high-capacity ammunition clips was backed by 74 percent, and 26 percent were opposed.

I dont care when people mistakenly call magazines "clips", but shouldnt a scientific surv.... err, online poll properly identify the item in question?


Heres another poll:

Most support NRA despite recent criticism, poll shows | Fox News

^ I tried to find this reported by another major news source because i know how much everyone here hates Fox...... Apperently only Fox found this news worthy, even though i think its pretty darn interesting. I wonder if it would be reported if the results were much less favorable to the NRA?

Its a Gallup poll, imho the most creditable. Although instead of creditability analysis they use that witches brew "margin of errors" and "stastical analysis" stuff. The math is too fancy for me to make sense of it:

NRA Has 54% Favorable Image in U.S.





*Giantone, i dont think youre a douchbag, im just using RR's statement for my example.