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| Porcupine Fish Award for Ultra-Fishy Polling (image credit) |
1. Recent media articles have carried some reports of a poll said to show support for protection of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, and at least partly commissioned by the Bob Brown Foundation.
2. Such limited details of the poll as are available show that the poll wording was ambiguous and implied unfounded conclusions in a way that probably pushed respondents towards certain beliefs.
3. Also, the details of the polling thus far publicly released are insufficient to be sure that prior questions were not used to train responses to later questions.
4. The result for protecting wilderness is in my view surprisingly low, and might be explained by negative reactions to the use of unsavoury styles of polling.
