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How not to poll

by Whaleoil on October 14, 2010

Labour’s polling company, multinational UMR, is in the field right now. Details of the questions and the structure have been leaked to me. If this is the standard of their polling then Labour is in real trouble.

Question 1: You had two votes in that election – one for a party and one for your local electorate candidate. Thinking about your party vote only – which party did you vote for in the general election?

And the order of the possible responses?

  • Labour
  • NZ First
  • ACT
  • Maori Party
  • Green
  • National
  • Other party (please specify):
  • Didn’t vote
  • Unsure
  • Prefer not to say

Talk about leading the respondent.

Question 2: Under MMP you have two votes. One for the candidate in the electorate you live in, and the second for a party. Thinking about this party vote only, if the general election were held today which party would you vote for?

And the order of possible responses? Again leading the respondent.

  • Labour
  • NZ First
  • ACT
  • Maori Party
  • Green
  • National
  • Other party (please specify):
  • Won’t vote
  • Unsure
  • Prefer not to say

No other choices, that is all. LKabour placed first and National placed last, interesting that NZ First is placed second.

Question 3: Please tell us how favourably or unfavourably you view the following politicians.

Respondents are invited to rate Phil Goff vs. John Key and to provide one word to describe John Key. Acceptable ratings are Never heard of, Unsure, Very unfavourable, Somewhat unfavourable,  Somewhat favourable and Very favourable.

Question 4: What do you see as John Key’s positives or strengths? What are his good points as prime minister, if any?

Question 5: What do you see as John Key’s negatives or weaknesses? What concerns do you have about him as prime minister, if any?

Gee, I wonder what they are trying to get there. The rest of the questions are about the economy and the respondents personal circumstances with regard to the economy. With the exception of the last question which is somewhat telling about the state of mind of either Labour or UMR or both.

Last Question: Here are several serious accusations that some people have made in recent years. Please tell me if you think each of these is very likely, somewhat likely or unlikely.

Wait for it……wait….

  • People in the United States of America government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.
  • The United States of America government staged or faked the Apollo moon landing.
  • Scientific claims about climate change and rising temperatures around the world have been deliberately exaggerated
  • Officials in the United States of America government were directly responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
  • The United States of America government is withholding proof of the existence of intelligent life from other planets.

Does Labour/UMR think that Climate Change is a global conspiracy and hoax like the Moon Landings? Or George Bush’s factotums destroyed the WTC? It’s laughable.

Of those 5 suppositions only one is a global conspiracy, Climate Change. The rest are delusions of strange people who inhabit the green party and the far left of Labour.

I would suggest that the way these questions are framed would seriously put the result in question. No wonder Labour still thinks that the reason they lost was that the public were hoodwinked by a lying John Key.

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  • toby

    I did some telephone polling for a party once, quite some time ago (no, I won’t say which). Those first 5 questions seem pretty standard. I don’t recall if we read out the list of parties in any specific order, I think we may have just left it open ended.

    That last question though – what a pearler! That is just plain batshit crazy! What useful information do they possibly expect to get from it? They want to know what percentage of the respondents are crackpots and therefore can be excluded from the survey results?

  • grizz

    I wonder what would happen if the last question was put to a selection of Labour Party Voters and National Party Voters. Would we go some way to uncovering members of the Flat Earth Society?

  • 666nzpr

    Very low standard of questions put to the libtards , the only questions they can understand and answer are simple and moronic and i think the polling company knows their customer very well.

  • adolffiinkensein

    Do they pay money to UMR for this nonsense?

    De they then all sit around, Dazza,, Plug,, Trev, Old Yeller, Chaaarles, Cunners and Co, Looing at beach other in amazement and shout -”Now we’ve got the bastards!!!!!!!” ?

  • thor42

    This poll shows how utterly feckless, useless and politically bankrupt Labour are. Their only “policies” consist of
    attacking whatever the government does. They have NOTHING as far as positive policies are concerned.
    Oh, they will say “motherhood and apple pie” stuff like “more jobs”. Fat chance of hearing from them how
    they would implement that though.

    At least under the Clark-beast, Labour had direction, albeit a completely wrong one. Now, they are
    about as useful as a penis without balls.

  • peterwn

    ummmmm. Before last election one of the questions was about John Key being ‘slippery’. I wish I could have recorded it. It would have been a beaut to put on the internet.

    Suppose Labour will now start criticising Curia polls.

  • cadwallader

    Pointless questions commissioned by pointless losers.

    There is a standard response though: “Fuck-off!”

    Why provide anything to these clowns when they are (multiple choice):
    1 History
    2 Despicable
    3 Negative
    4 Superfluous
    5 All of the above.

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