Ireland.com poll

Victor

Ireland.com are running a poll at http://scripts.ireland.com/polls/focus/election_2002/index.cfm

Not encouraging for FF in terms of the relationship between their voters and the internet although SF figure would appear inflated.

FG	 24.15 %
FF	 21.61 %
Labour	 17.16 %
SF	 16.44 %
Green	  7.98 %
PD's	  5.97 %
SP	  2.32 %
Other	  4.37 %

The Irish Times and ireland.com take no responsibility for the opinions expressed. These polls are not intended to be scientific: they only reflect the opinions of ireland.com readers who have chosen to vote. Results cannot be assumed to be indicative of public opinion or of the opinions of Internet users in general.

sceptre

Originally posted by Victor
although SF figure would appear inflated.

That'll be all the Yankees voting

Biffa Bacon

The poll is meaningless.

DeVore

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Theres a very good book that was required reading for my Maths degree called "how to lie with statistics" which if anyone is interested in just how sly statisticians can manipulate the public opinion.

DeV.

Saruman

DeVore, would that be something along the lines of people always go with the croud.. so if they think after looking at a muppet poll like this that FG are going to win.... then they will decide to go with FG themselves and be one of the lads rather than vote for someone who is clearly going to loose according to the poll like the greens or PD's

sceptre

Aye, DeVore, good book that. I've had a copy for about ten years now. Worth a read.

Victor

I suppose the following proves that FF followers just aren't savvy enough to use an internet poll. (alternatives they didn't spam the poll or there are few FF followers left).

New link http://www.ireland.com/focus/election_2002/interactive/partypollresult.htm

Poll Result
Party 	% 
FG 	24.18
SF 	20.27
FF 	19.06
Labour 	13.53
Green 	11.44
PD's 	5.38
Other 	3.52
SP 	2.64

This poll is based on 8527 votes taken between April 25th and May 16th.

The Irish Times and ireland.com take no responsibility for the opinions expressed. These polls are not intended to be scientific: they only reflect the opinions of ireland.com readers who have chosen to vote. Results cannot be assumed to be indicative of public opinion or of the opinions of Internet users in general.

dahamsta

I suppose the following proves that FF followers just aren't savvy enough to use an internet poll. (alternatives they didn't spam the poll or there are few FF followers left).

Perhaps they don't believe in the Internet Victor? Now I wonder where they'd get that from?

adam