BobW
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > However, I am confounded by his point
> > -- i.e., polls show that Americans think their
> private lives are just
> > ducky, but they also think the wheels are coming
> off the nation as a
> > whole.
> >
> > If that isn't proof positive that Americans are
> dumber than shit, I
> > don't know what would qualify.
>
> Sometimes pollsters use questions about how people
> perceive neighbors
> or their larger world as a way of getting a handle
> on their real
> opinions about their own lives - esp on stuff where
> there's social
> disapproval involved. Classic example is to ask
> evaluation of others'
> views on race and racism. Since it's criminally
> unpatriotic to be
> anything but optimistic and happy in the USA, it
> could be that the
> questions about the state of the nation reveal
> people's actual views.
>
> Doug
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