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Opinion Polls

  • 16-05-2008 10:34AM
    #1
    lucylu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭


    Have you ever been contacted to participate in an Option Poll.. or are they made up??


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  • #2
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Opinion polls have shown that 90% of opinion polls are made up.


  • #3
    Irish Halo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    Poll?


  • #4
    Doctor DooM
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,885 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    lucylu wrote: »
    Have you ever been contacted to participate in an Option Poll.. or are they made up??

    Yup.

    I am also frequently stopped on the corner of Abbey St and O connell St to participate in taste tests for various alcoholic drink manufacturers. I told them breó sucked.


  • #5
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    my friend used to do em, she made me do about 200 of them :(


  • #6
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    A mate and me were stopped outside Bruxelles one day and asked if we want a couple of beers and a do quick opinion survey. We were raging because we actually were in a rush and couldn't participate. :(

    Can't remember participating in any since.


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  • #7
    Femelade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭Femelade


    People call to our house maybe twic a year, and they ask for someone within a certain age group..
    Once i did a survey for the JNLR. even though i told her i work for a radio station, she said it didnt matter, but i though surely it did..but i did it anyway, Our station came out top again that yr..


  • #8
    token56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,703 ✭✭✭token56


    Never been stopped to do an opinion poll but I was stopped one day to test ice cream. Got free ice cream and 10 euro for doing it, that was a good day.


  • #9
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I've never done a political opinion poll, but I did a JNLR one, and have done various taste tests etc.

    The political polls really bug me, the media make a big deal of 2% drops or increases, even though it says in the "small print" that the error is +/- 3% or whatever...so a 2% drop or increase is meaningless.


  • #10
    kittensoft1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭kittensoft1984


    always

    was asked to participate in an argos one last weekend too


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,928 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I know one person who ever has and that was because an old college friend was the poller.
    He bullied everyone in his phonebook into helping him out.
    He tended to make up the details too.


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