Soon after the Register poll was published Monday night, showing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton trailing Mr. Obama, the Clinton campaign sent out a memorandum questioning its methodology and sampling.
Educators are also questioning the methodology of the tests, which are graded on a bell curve, with the results closely associated with socioeconomic status.
The problem is that when you reject the basic legitimacy of government statistics (as opposed to questioning their methodology), you run the risk of entering a fun-house world.
In a flurry of meetings with ambassadors from the United States, Canada, France and Brazil, Mr. Préval has stood firm, questioning the methodology of the O.A.S. report and pointing out that the report's recommendations are not binding.
David Marshall from Which? explained that when the magazine highlighted the behaviour of large corporations, rather than questioning the methodology, arguing their case and presenting their own evidence, there was a tendency for the companies to send a 9-10 page letter threatening legal action.
In addition, several dozen biostatisticians and cancer researchers at Harvard, Princeton, Johns Hopkins and other academic institutions are now questioning the methodology behind the three clinical trials, urging a halt to the Duke studies -- two on lung cancer and one on breast cancer -- in a letter sent to the director of the National Cancer Institute.
That same day there were articles in other newspapers questioning the methodology and the very basic journalistic shortcomings of the piece, and it was beginning to look like a blatant piece of hate-mongering to some of my listeners.
Jarecki had promised that at the end of the series we would know what happened, but his refusal to speak has left me questioning his methodology and feeling mistrustful.
