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Push Polling
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Any poll that has been somehow skewed toward a certain result. Legitimate pollsters spend a lot of time carefully thinking through their question phrasing and even how they order their questions, since subtle changes in either variable can dramatically affect the final results. This is even true for pollsters who work for political candidates, political parties, or corporations — it's really important that a political campaign have accurate polling numbers instead of going around asking voters, "Do you prefer Candidate A, a war hero, or Candidate B, who hypothetically could have driven under the influence of alcohol last night?" Honest polling operations are trying to get a legitimate sense of public opinion instead of a specific outcome. There are a few different methods of conducting push polling. One method is framing the questions to get the answers you want, typically with loaded questions. This can be done with a degree of subtlety, such as summarizing the opposing positions on an issue using language that's tilted toward one side or the other, or in a comically blunt and un-subtle fashion ("Do you support defending our country or signing this peace treaty and surrendering our freedoms to terrorists?"). In some cases, the organization conducting the push polling doesn't even care about the answer — they're simply using the poll as a thinly-veiled excuse for spreading propaganda or rumormongering. For example: "Would you be more or less likely to vote for Candidate X if you knew he was a convicted murderer?" Notice the use of the hypothetical "if" in this situation — technically the organization isn't accusing Candidate X of committing murder, it's simply asking a totally innocent, totally hypothetical question. Another is polling people when you already know how they will answer — that is, only polling people who might already have the opinion you want. If you're conducting a poll of Kansas residents to determine if everyone in the city of Topeka should be given a million dollars each, and you only poll people in Topeka, you're technically doing what you claim to be doing (you are polling Kansas residents, after all), but your poll is deliberately biased in a specific direction. Also there is polling people to identify their opinion personally in order to discover exactly who has what opinion, which is the opposite of legitimate polls where people are only identified by the demographic, not by name. Subtrope of Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (using credible-sounding statistics for deception). Compare Selective Stupidity (which is doing some Manipulative Editing to make people appear stupid). Often involves a False Dichotomy (believing that only two—often conflicting—options exist, when there are many other alternatives) and Distinction Without a Difference (pretending two things are different when they're functionally the same). |
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Parks and Recreation: Leslie tries to get public support for building a park, by presenting the question to the public as "Wouldn't you rather have a park than a storage facility for nuclear waste?" | |
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Smiling Friends: At the end of "Shrimp's Odyssey", a poll is held to see if the new Smiling Friend, Smormu, will be a permanent addition to the cast. Voting means texting a phrase to a phone number—those who wanted Smormu in can just type in his name, but those who don't need to put in "NO I REALLY REALLY REALLY DON'T WANT SMORMU." While the requirement for voting against him getting in the show is far more complex than voting for him, the votes for and against him were apparently equal, but the votes from the "electoral college" cemented his debut for real. He's in the show for a brief moment, then is dead by the time the credits are finished. | |
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8-Bit Theater: Parodied to show the Crapsack World. The stupid, incompetent, and power-mad King Steve holds a popularity poll, asking if the subject would like to be ruled by King Steve forever, or get a sword through their head. The survey had a 52% fatality rate.note His daughter wasn't kidding when she said he's less popular than a hole in the head. | |
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Doonesbury: A reporter at a George W. Bush museum interacts with an exhibit designed to show why Dubya wasn't the Worst President Ever. The questions go "Allow Saddam to somehow use WMD's he didn't have to take over the world" or "Invade Iraq again". | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin likes to confront his dad with polls of the 6-year-old and tiger populations of the house. While these invariably show a landslide of popular opinion, his father inexplicably remains unmoved. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure: In Azure, President Dieter Crois starts a referendum (actually a non-legislative opinion poll) asking for citizen opinions on the topic of Crossbell independence. However, he never mentions the obstacles they would have to face to achieve independence, skewing results towards pro-independence because people don't understand the full consequences of this decision. He also hires the Red Constellation to start a False Flag Operation against Crossbell to further push the poll towards independence. While the poll isn't supposed to actually determine policy, Dieter has all other legislators secretly placed under house arrest, and then uses the results of the poll to make his forceful actions toward independence seem legitimate. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: The Valentione's Day 2020 event offers the players a choice of three NPCs to vote for as the Emissary of Love, with unique cutscenes that would play at the conclusion of the event depending on who wings. However, Astrid is pushed as the blatantly correct option (existing ties to the event, the traditional color scheme, etc), as a result of which she ends up winning the election on every server in the entire game. The dev blog details What Could Have Been if Rodrigault or Bert had won. | |
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The Colbert Report: Parodied. <insert person>, Great <relative position> or Greatest <relative position>? (George Bush, Great President or Greatest President?) And trying to Take a Third Option by flat saying the subject wasn't great at all just gets you "I'll just put you down for 'great', then, because that's not as great..." | |
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You're (Not) Elected, Charlie Brown: Lucy takes an opinion poll to see if Linus could win the school election. Naturally, she intimidates everyone into saying they would vote for him and she thus concludes that he has a good chance. | |
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The Esoterrorists: Like other high-paid political firms, Pedroso, Bash, and Cibulski is able to change public opinion by measuring it, through a technique known as push-polling. Instead of asking crude questions about the candidates in a race, it poses a series of obscure queries on apparently unrelated subjects, designed through psychographic means as yet unknown (and impossible to divine from reading Dario Pedroso's books on the subject) to elicit surprisingly potent changes in outlook by the listener. The interviewer then concludes with a brief positive mention of the candidate, which appears to create an almost post-hypnotic bond between the politician's name and this alteration in worldview. These polls, conducted immediately prior to elections, swung the vote to Pedroso's clients by as much as 15%, or so he claims. More importantly, independent follow-up polling have found that these interviewees change their self-descriptions in such matters as party affiliation, the acceptability of sexual practices, and even religious beliefs. | |
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Saturday Night Live: During a 1982 episode of the show, Eddie Murphy presents a live lobster in a chef's kitchen on-air. He then opens a a phone poll so that viewers can decide whether to cook the lobster or not. Murphy deliberately tries to skew the poll towards killing the crustacean by enunciating the "cook" number slowly and clearly while speeding through the "spare" number. Despite this, the "spare" option wings; Murphy, however, cooks and serves the lobster anyways a week later due to racist remarks he received in the wake of the poll. | |
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Pearls Before Swine: Rat takes a job as a pollster. Of course, being Rat, he skews the questions, asking ones like "Do you support the mayor, or do you agree with all the people who say he's a bigtime poophead?" Later, when asked to be more neutral, he does ask seemingly neutral questions... such as "Do you support the current economic policies?" to three homeless people. | |
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The New Order Last Days Of Europe: The 1956 flashback shows Lam answering a "Zhujin Census Form" which skews in favor of the Sphere and Japanization. The first two questions, his background, and contributions to the state, are answered honestly enough, but the final question asks for his opinion of the Co-Prosperity Sphere and whether or not it has benefitted Guangdong, to which Lam writes about how the influx of Japanese capitol has raised the standards of living. Throughout all of this, Lam must write in perfect Japanese to show that he's been assimilated into their culture and implicitly prove his loyalty to Japan. By the end, it isn't clear where the truths and fictions lie. | |
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A Thread About How Much I Love Asriel: Nasso posted a poll where he asked Twitter users to decide how he would spend the next 24 hours. All four options were "love Asriel." | |
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: In an episode about statistics, one guest shows how polls are slanted to get a certain answer by asking questions of the same person and getting conflicted answers. | |
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Happens all the time on Wikipedia. Many people seem to think they can change the (nebulous) rules and force all other editors to do what they say, simply by holding a small biased poll on the matter. One of the more famous ones was a policy proposal to outlaw sarcasm. | |
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Gravity Falls: In "Tourist Trapped", Mabel secretly gives a boy a quiz in an attempt to gain a boyfriend, with all three choices being positive responses. | |
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