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Originally Posted by Catlady
I'm finding it really incredible that so many people who don't like the results are having a knee-jerk reaction that the polling methodology is flawed and/or that the pollsters tailored the results to fit someone's agenda.
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I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction that the methodology was flawed — I had a knee-jerk reaction that the polling
as reported was flawed. It was reported that "
3 out of 4 Americans prefer paper", but that is unsupportable just from common sense — it's not possible that 3 out of 4 have even had the opportunity to find which they prefer, and we already know that fewer than 3 out of 4 have a preference because they don't read at all!
So, now, having read a little more, I feel I can safely say that if the methodology isn't flawed, Rasmussen's conclusions certainly are, as they're the ones who claim "Three-out-of-four Americans still prefer a traditional book over an electronic book-reading device and continue to reads books that way" and their questions can't support that conclusion.