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Tinkering with Surveys

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Surveys are not the most reliable way to gauge a candidate's popularity. Politicians manipulate ratings as a matter of practice because they think favorable ones will help them win.

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Politicians do many things to boost their image in the eyes of voters. One of the most common tactics is to release surveys about how popular they are, as is widely being done these days leading up to the general elections on April 9. The problem is that politicians often request survey institutes to tinker with the results.

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