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Blogspam. Direct link: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1919 http://www.quinnipiac.edu/inst

by cletus 13y ago

Blogspam. Direct link: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1919 http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-ins... That one explains the polling methods as well, which is incredibly important: > From June 28 - July 8, Quinnipiac University surveyed 2,014 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.2 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones. > The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Douglas Schwartz, Ph.D., conducts public opinion surveys in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and the nation as a public service and for research.

vidarh 13y ago
The most astonishing thing is to see that there is a solid majority that see Snowden as a whistleblower in every category surveyed, whether old or young, religious or not, republican or democrat, or even military households.. More depressing to see a plurality across the board consider the metadata collection as necessary (though at the same time similar sized groups consider it as too much intrusion into Americans personal privacy)
- tzs 13y ago
  It's not that astonishing, since the question was "Do you regard Edward Snowden, the national security consultant who released information to the media about the phone scanning program, as more of a traitor, or more of a whistle-blower?" If one has not been following the story closely, they might think from that question that releasing information about phone scanning was ALL that Snowden did. As Nate Silver pointed out at FiveThirtyEight: "Some Americans may be pleased by Mr. Snowden’s disclosures about how the N.S.A. conducted surveillance against U.S. citizens – but displeased that he has also disclosed details about its international surveillance. The Quinnipiac poll should probably have described a fuller spectrum of the information that Mr. Snowden has released."
  - twoodfin 13y ago
    I have a feeling adding "currently in Russia" would also skew the poll pretty hard. Not endorsing such a wording, but it's easy to get different results with slightly different wording. And "traitor" is pretty strong. I might have answered he was more of a whistleblower than a traitor, and I think he should go to jail for a decade or more.

by cletus 13y ago

vidarh 13y ago

The most astonishing thing is to see that there is a solid majority that see Snowden as a whistleblower in every category surveyed, whether old or young, religious or not, republican or democrat, or even military households.. More depressing to see a plurality across the board consider the metadata collection as necessary (though at the same time similar sized groups consider it as too much intrusion into Americans personal privacy)

tzs 13y ago
It's not that astonishing, since the question was "Do you regard Edward Snowden, the national security consultant who released information to the media about the phone scanning program, as more of a traitor, or more of a whistle-blower?" If one has not been following the story closely, they might think from that question that releasing information about phone scanning was ALL that Snowden did. As Nate Silver pointed out at FiveThirtyEight: "Some Americans may be pleased by Mr. Snowden’s disclosures about how the N.S.A. conducted surveillance against U.S. citizens – but displeased that he has also disclosed details about its international surveillance. The Quinnipiac poll should probably have described a fuller spectrum of the information that Mr. Snowden has released."
- twoodfin 13y ago
  I have a feeling adding "currently in Russia" would also skew the poll pretty hard. Not endorsing such a wording, but it's easy to get different results with slightly different wording. And "traitor" is pretty strong. I might have answered he was more of a whistleblower than a traitor, and I think he should go to jail for a decade or more.