Do Michael Cullen's tax cuts meet your expectations?
Yes
No
How does one make any sense of that?
If you expected Cullen to be less generous, you would reply "No". If you expected him to be more generous, you would also reply "No".
Two people with opposite expectations responding to the poll would correctly give the same answer, thus rendering the answer meaningless as there is no way to separate a positive deviation from a negative one as far as expectations are concerned. All you know is the extent to which the Budget was something other than what was expected - not whether the Budget is deemed good or bad.
The only way to reply "Yes" is to have expected exactly what Cullen delivered.
This poll is intended to produce a "No" answer....indicating disapproval, or budget security was very weak and everyone expected exactly what was in it.
I wouldn't consider an online poll or even a phone poll as valid and people can't rely on the information. I thought the budget was good and I like the extra spending on health and education.
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, I agree. I was wondering why anyone would bother composing an online poll that can only be utterly meaningless thanks to an ambiguous question, even if - by wild chance - it should accidentally be composed of an appropriately random sample so as to approach a credible base for assessing opinion.
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