Polls be damned

I love biased pollster questions.

The Adverister 13/06/08 the other day had a telephone poll, the question was “Are universities given enough funding for research projects?”  With an emphatic 93% saying NO. Well seems like the public want more research funding.   Well, 15 of them.  The 93% implies 13-14 people called in to say no.  

These kind of populist questions really grind on my nerves.  You might as well be asking “How cute are puppies?”

I don’t know if the low smaple rate was due to telephone costs (55c) or because the question was so weighted that really there was only “socially correct” answer.