My dodge? Are you ****ing kidding me here? You asked a question, I answered with what appears to be a credible study from a public university that suggests 67% of Native Americans find the name to be offensive. And you are suggesting I am dodging?
Priceless.
Actually, there's a
**** TON of serious, legitimate questions about that study that aren't just speculative or opinion in nature but are directly related to the long established methods of scientific polling.
Hopefully you may have better luck answering some of the questions I have about it than the last poster that pointed to it...because they provided nothing, and I've not been able to find anything myself.
Do you have a link to the actual poll itself? All I've found was a press release.
Do you have any information on what the methodology of the poll was. Scientific polls have this information included, but this particular press release did not. The little they spoke of the methodology suggested it was anything but a legitimate scientifically conducted poll. Rather than undergoing random sampling they inserted a purposeful bias into the process by going to specific locations and areas and only polling people there.
To give an example, this would be like going into downtown Harlem or Compton, taking a poll about an issue of racism, and then proclaiming that as evidence of what "african americans" the country over believe and experience. That is in no way, shape, or form a legitimate method of scientifically conducting the polling process.
Now imagine that such a tactic is defended bu the pollster because he simply doesn't believe that a black person not living in Compton or Harlem isn't a "real black person", or who doesn't belong to the NCAAP or another black civil rights group, isn't a "real" black person regardless of their ancestry or identification. This is effectivley what was done here to the best I can figure given the fact they haven't publicly published the poll.
Do you have any information about the margin of error in this poll. Again, that is something routinely found within any scientifically conducted poll...yet I've been able to find, nor have been provided, any information regarding this.
I think you're misplacing your trust in this particular poll Top Cat, banking it only on the fact it's from a "public university" (ignoring that it's from an individual in a public university that has a distinct potential motivation to be biased and who has a predetermined stance on the issue, unlike the other major poll done on this matter) instead of actually looking at the meat of the poll.
Trusting a news site that is one of the biggest offenders for reposting and reprinting exaggerated, dishonest, or just flat out WRONG information in the name of getting facebook hits and creating click bait is not a wise thing to do.