Thursday, March 26, 2009

Internet Polls

The blog The UT Internet Poll (again) explains how Pualburka argues Internet polls being useless and not a form of methodology. He shares with us three questions from the government professors who operate the UT Poll. Are you registered to vote in the state of Texas? How interested, generally speaking, would you say you are politics and public affairs? And How closely would you say you will be following the Texas Legislative session this year? Paulburka goes on about how 800 Texans taking this poll doesn't speak for Texas as a whole and that this poll is not accurate because of it. Also that the people taking this poll are more into politics than the norm skewing the results.

Paulburka's audience is everyone, Texas citizens, UT students and others. He doesn't want us to base all of our information on internet polls. He has a good argument in a sense of us not believing in internet polls fully but he doesn't give us information about where we can find more meaningful and truthful information. He's argueing against internet polls but doesn't side with another source. Paulburka puts alot of his opinions in this blog but doesn't make up his argument with statistics, events nothing. Paulburka doesn't prove the professors wrong, he just states how he believes the internet polls are not accurate.

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