Digging into the 90 percent number more

[87iroc]

Maybe this has been talked about ad nauseum...but someone in the other thread posted this 'poll' up as the reference for where they are getting the 90% number from...

National (US) Poll - April 4, 2013 - Background Checks Could Lead T | Quinnipiac University Connecticut

I looked through it and I throw the BS Flag

53% support stronger gun control in US....(OK...maybe believeable as they didn't dictate for that question WHAT that meant)

59% support a ban on assault weapons. Question is asked kind of funny...but regardless...thats an oddly high number

58% support a ban on magazines containing more than 10 bullets. Interesting again...BUT....digging deeper...

59% in the SOUTH support this ban. Thats odd considering the south is the epicenter for the redneck hick contingent that the left likes to portray as the 'standard' gun owning clinger.
58% in the west support as well?

Do you support background checks on all gun purchases?
90-92% around the country...no matter WHAT region...same number. Oddly even across the board.

The university conducting the survey is in Connecticut.

There is some real oddities in that survey...just making me really scratch my head over who was asked. I really wonder if the questions they have listed were what was truly asked.

 

[Wreaver]

Polls drive me nuts. Ask it the right way and you can get 90% to agree to ban water. The 40% number they throw around is from 93/94 and the real number was something like 35.6%. Not sure how that gets rounded up to 40.

 

[chasekerion4]

I did this myself earlier (looked up the Quinnipiac poll)

First thing I looked at was the demographics.

26% Republican
34% Democrat
32% Independent
7% no answer

Don't know why they're missing a percentage point, but whatever...

 

[EOD Guy]

Last poll stated 83% of statistics are made up!

 

[ArcadiaGP]

The "90% poll" was of 1400 people.

It's irrelivent.

 

[hoosierdoc]

The "90% poll" was of 1400 people.

It's irrelivent.

You can get a representative sample out of 1400 people, they just chose not to

 

[churchmouse]

If any one has ever answered a poll the questions are slanted to get the answers they are seeking. Period. My wife answered a poll shortly after I was denied being questioned due to my demographic....republican. She told them she was a raving "D" just to hear the questions. It was slanted towards birth control and so skewed she had to hang up as laughter was interfering.
Ask who is paying for the poll and you will have your answers.