Interviewer: "How old is he?" Respondent: "He is six years".
In Labour's private polling, before he asked respondents how they would vote, he says, he asked them to think about the country, the economy, the leaders and so on to get them "closer to the ballot box mindset".
He is the author of one such study, in which he showed respondents a video of a woman wearing a sexy low-cut blouse with a tight skirt or a skirt and blouse that were conservatively cut.
And he said respondents had been influenced by the false information.
He continued: "Respondents rated a member of Congress far more favorably if the lawmaker put the interests of his or her district or state over those of the country as a whole".
"Sometimes," he said, "I'll think, 'This is really going someplace.' " For example, in the case of a movie studio sued by a landlord for rent due after a hopeful start to their business dealings he wrote: "Respondents at this point believed life is beautiful and that they would soon be enjoying the sweet smell of success".
Fechner's most famous study of preferences (1876) appears to bolster a long-standing claim of architectural theorists since Vitruvius: given a set of rectangles of various dimensions, he found, respondents tend to find most pleasing those whose proportions conform to the "golden section" (1 1.618), and find most displeasing long and narrow rectangles.
Gallup knew that the press wouldn't be interested in results that showed perhaps a majority of voters undecided months before an election, so he asked respondents which candidates they would vote for "today".1 And for the past seven plus decades pollsters have blindly followed that same format.
Only the first author had access to the data from MSM respondents—he shared only de-identified quotation segments (rather than the full transcripts) with the other authors during analysis and manuscript writing.
The respondents, he thinks, were simply embarrassed to acknowledge their exploitation.
He added: "The respondents' experiences with communism are most certainly relevant to this analysis".
