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Political Survey for statistics class.

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I'd be grateful if you guys answered a couple questions to help me out on this.

If you only had two news networks to pick from, which one would you pick? BBC News or Fox News

Do you lean politically left or politically right?

Thanks!
 
FOX/right

However, never watch the BBC.

Good luck getting some here to answer truthfully
 
Lean right, and I'd take Fox over BBC because I don't look to foreign news outlets for reporting on US matters.
 
While I'm a conservative, I would never pay any attention to either news source.
 
bannination said:
I'd be grateful if you guys answered a couple questions to help me out on this.
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Okay!

If you only had two news networks to pick from, which one would you pick? BBC News or Fox News
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Well, I would say the BBC.....if I only wanted news.
However, all that wonky newsiness gets kinda boring after awhile.
So, if I want blondes and legshots I tune into FOX..... "They report, I decide to.. leer...ogle...listen with my eyes."


Do you lean politically left or politically right?
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Slightly left.



Thanks!
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You're welcome!
 
As a Socialist I'd never watch Fox News even if I lived where I could - the extracts we see are hilarious! The BBC is pretty right-wing because it is afraid the tory bullies will take away its licence fee, but it is about the only network worth watching/listening to, especially as it does without the interminable idiot adverts.
 
bannination said:
I'd be grateful if you guys answered a couple questions to help me out on this.

If you only had two news networks to pick from, which one would you pick? BBC News or Fox News

Do you lean politically left or politically right?

Thanks!
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You should have put this into a poll. Otherwise users are going to come up with their own creative answers and options.

BBC News and I don't generally lean in either direction, unless you specify an issue or a group of issues.
 
brothern said:
You should have put this into a poll. Otherwise users are going to come up with their own creative answers and options.
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Yeah, we wouldn't want any creativity or oddball options intruding on any thread.
Are you sure you're a libertarian? ;)
 
radioman said:
Yeah, we wouldn't want any creativity or oddball options intruding on any thread.
Are you sure you're a libertarian? ;)
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Statistical analysis doesn't work if everyone has a different answer ... Unless you're going to somehow come up with a keyword search, or some other bizarre way to categorize the answers.

There's also a difference between consequentialist and deontological libertarianism.
 
brothern said:
You should have put this into a poll. Otherwise users are going to come up with their own creative answers and options.

BBC News and I don't generally lean in either direction, unless you specify an issue or a group of issues.
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Yes, not sure which forum softwares support that type of polling and I'm polling a lot of different forums, so I've been torturing myself. I'm just grabbing the answers that are straight forward and to the point. In an ideal exercise I would have included independents as well and a few more news outlets, but more variables = more work. :)

Thanks everyone I really do appreciate the answers.
 
bannination said:
I'd be grateful if you guys answered a couple questions to help me out on this.

If you only had two news networks to pick from, which one would you pick? BBC News or Fox News

Do you lean politically left or politically right?

Thanks!
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I'm not sure I understand.

Why would you pick a UK based source as one option, and a US based source for the other?

That's pretty silly, and I'm guessing it's going to really screw up, and skew any results you might get.
 
Dragonfly said:
I'm not sure I understand.

Why would you pick a UK based source as one option, and a US based source for the other?

That's pretty silly, and I'm guessing it's going to really screw up, and skew any results you might get.
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You're probably trying to think about it to deeply. It's simply a determination if there is a connection between political leanings and preferred news sources. What the results mean could be a wide open debate, however I'm just testing for dependence and non-uniformity. Picking a UK news source vs. Fox News was definitely intentional, it makes the results interesting as you could imagine.
 
bannination said:
I'd be grateful if you guys answered a couple questions to help me out on this.

If you only had two news networks to pick from, which one would you pick? BBC News or Fox News

Do you lean politically left or politically right?

Thanks!
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BBC/right - being in Canada, I get regular access to the BBC and while it's definitely left leaning it is generally very interested in journalistic integrity.
 
BBC.

Mainly because they aren't from around here, and having an outside perspective could be useful.

I can pick up opinions from the USA via other media.

My lean depends on what we're talking about, but in general it's more right than left, I think. As far as the left/right analogy goes.
 
Fox/right.

And while BBC is much better than American left wing news sources, its still clearly left leaning.

Fox is actually more centrist than right leaning. But it also riles up the lefties so its all good. :cool:
 
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