Forget about the economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and saving Social Security: An online opinion survey released by the White House this week ranks legalizing pot, playing online poker and cracking down on Scientologists as far more important issuesIt reflects the limits of the public involvement campaign by the Obama administration.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Limits of Public Input
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Opt-in polling tends to attract people with strong opinions, and doesn't represent the interests of the population at large.
There are also groups that love to answer for "comedy." That is, they'll answer according to what they think would be most hilarious to report, not what they actually think.
Yes, indeed. Though there's always the question of how a representative government balances the strongly held opinions of a minority against the weakly held views of a majority.
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