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StinkyJournalism.org's 2011 Top Ten 'Dubious Polling' Awards
January 26, 2011These 2011 awards highlight the top ten most Dubious Polls of 2010 which could reasonably be called the Year of Polling Dangerously. Or, more to the point, the Year of Polling Ridiculously. By either name, the media ethics project, sponsored by the Art Science Research Laboratory in New York—and its resident expert on polling, David W. Moore—has released the Third Annual Top Ten "Dubious Polling" Awards. The ten results are not pretty. But they are pretty funny. (Better to laugh than cry at the polling inaccuracies). Take, for example, the 10th-place finisher, Pew Research's Social and Demographic Trends Project, which received the "Sour On Romance" Award. Pew would have us think that marriage is so over in America because their polling found that the numbers of American adults saying "marriage is obsolete" has increased by 11 percentage points since 1978. Full release
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