Tag Archives: Online Polls

My first poll (Hypocrite)

Ian Wishart will save us all from ourselves this weekend with “will be breaking a massive story, implicating two current cabinet ministers and a former Labour cabinet minister, in an unprecedented political scandal”. What will this be, take part in … Continue reading

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I hate hate hate online and txt polls

Not because they don’t always say what I want to hear (that’s life toughen up), they are a very strange marketing tool. Take tonight’s poll by TVNZ on the leaders debate. According to TV1 47,000 people took part. At a … Continue reading

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Show me the data

You show me the empirical data that shows that the death penalty or imprisonment without the chance of parole makes the streets safer and/or prevents crime and I’ll consider it. Otherwise it’s just vindictive justice based on retribution rather than … Continue reading

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The media’s got a stiffie about itself…

I have never been a fan of those inane polls that they carry on news web sites, aside from all of the issues like the stupidity of the questions and even greater insanity of the answers they let you choose … Continue reading

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