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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Henny on September 24, 2010, 01:29:54 AM
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Someone emailed me some information about a poll out there on a little site called "The Daily Conservative" asking people to go out and put in their vote (intentionally, to skew the results).
(I see a lot of this poll skewing activity both in blogs and in emails I get from friend - I usually only jump in to skew results about creationism and evolution (when creationists/ID'ers are the ones putting up the polls). ;D
Anyway... this one was a bit different and to be honest, I would have rather seen the real results of such a poll. The question? "Are blacks equal to whites?" You can see it here: http://thedailyconservative.net/ (http://thedailyconservative.net/)
When the poll was emailed around for skewing, the results were something like Yes - 57% and No - 39%, although it has been since skewed in much higher favor of Yes now.
So I'm curious - have any of you ever heard of this site? I like to think that some small-time racist is running a website, but the name of the site gives conservatives a bad name by association.
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So I'm curious - have any of you ever heard of this site?
Nope
I like to think that some small-time racist is running a website, but the name of the site gives conservatives a bad name by association.
Yep. Perhaps done so, on purpose
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What gets measured by an internet poll?
If there isn't a good way to prevent squidging it might scientifically be measuring peoples willingness to lie.
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I like to think that some small-time racist is running a website, but the name of the site gives conservatives a bad name by association.
Yep. Perhaps done so, on purpose
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Perhaps, but it hardly matters. Just a reminder of how the internet, while helping us all to be more informed, can also work to the detriment of a group or a cause at the hands of 1 idiot.
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So true :-\
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The poll and site are published by a liberal who posts often at the Huffington Post.
This is a not a site put up by a conservative, idiot or otherwise.
This is a disinformation operation.
Like infiltrating a tea party rally with racist signs.
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The poll and site are published by a liberal who posts often at the Huffington Post. This is a disinformation operation. Like infiltrating a tea party rally with racist signs.
Ahhh, tends to reinforce the deduction I prompted earlier. Thanks Bt
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Ahhh, tends to reinforce the deduction I prompted earlier. Thanks Bt
http://debategate.com/new3dhs/3dhs/what-is-this-poll/msg110989/#msg110989 (http://debategate.com/new3dhs/3dhs/what-is-this-poll/msg110989/#msg110989)
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Yea, I kinda saw that the 1st time, and appreciated the barebones later edition, I was responding to. But thanks again
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Facts change perception.
But the author succeeded in his mission anyways. Because the majority of the chatter on the net about this ASSUMES that this was posted by a conservative, based on nothing more than the name of the website.
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Facts change perception.
But the author succeeded in his mission anyways. Because the majority of the chatter on the net about this ASSUMES that this was posted by a conservative, based on nothing more than the name of the website.
Indeed. Just as the left hopes continued plants at Tea party events, brandishing racist signs/rhetoric will degrade their tidal wave of a message
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Nixon did the same thing.
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Yep