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Originally Posted by Bullitt
The whole "findings" are some pretty shaky ground as far as I am concerned. A poll of 1,150 people.. out of a population of 26,783,383 (July 2006 est.) can hardly say that it is representative of all Iraqis.
I'm not saying they're right or wrong, I'm saying the poll is horse sh*t and can't be broadly applied to the entire nation like that website is trying to do.
(population figure comes from the CIA website: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/iz.html ) |
Just because you disagree with the results, doesn't make a poll wrong. Poll takers often use a sample size of 1,000 to 2,000 people. What counts is accuracy, not quantity. If you read the information under "Methods" in the link I gave in my OP, you will see that WPO went to great effort to pick a random sampling that included all Iraq's major ethnic groups and urban areas as well as rural ones.