Monday, March 03, 2003

Responsible Journalism II

The Union published the results of last week's online "poll" today, and sure enough, it showed 70% were in favor of impeaching Gray Davis. So the interesting thing to do now is to randomly survey Nevada County households and see how the "online" and "random" percentages compare. In other words, quantify the amount, if any, of online "poll" bias (which could be an artifact, or could be deliberate) & the direction in which it is skewing the results. This would be news.

I've emailed Richard Somerville the editor suggesting that they do the story.

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