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Old 19-06-2014, 20:07   #1583
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Re: Will Scotland Leave the UK?

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Originally Posted by Mr Angry View Post
Nice sidestep Chris.

You can't seriously be suggesting that manipulation of polls doesn't exist?

You've even gone so far as to allege as much about some of the survation polls, have you not?
Which you have now countered with a subtle segue in your argument from "the Scottish referendum polls are being manipulated" to "the manipulation of polls exists".

As a general statement, the latter I think is reasonable, even without specific evidence. The former, I believe, requires specific evidence to back it up.

As you have (almost) remembered, there are questions over the legitimacy of some polls in the indy referendum. As it happens it's Panelbase, not Survation. Panelbase had to close its panel to new members earlier this year because it suspected it was being flooded with nationalists posing as others in order to try to skew the results towards Yes.

However, I don't believe any of that justifies the leaden paranoia evident in your earlier comment which (and please correct me if I've misunderstood you), implied a co-ordinated, deliberate campaign of misinformation spanning multiple unconnected polling companies who have been commissioned by multiple unconnected clients, from both sides of the independence debate. Do you have any evidence of this?
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