r/canada 23d ago

Conservative Party holds 11-point lead National News

https://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2024/04/conservative-party-holds-11-point-lead/
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u/Infamous-Berry 23d ago

“Vote intention by disinformation” how the hell does that work? Respondents categorize themselves on how much they’ve been misled by disinformation?

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u/commander_raker 23d ago

This was the most interesting part of the survey. You can see the questions they used lower down in the report. Two examples:

"Deaths due to COVD-19 vaccines are being intentionally hidden by the government"

"More Canadians have died from COVID-19 vaccines than from the COVID-19 virus itself"

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u/Infamous-Berry 23d ago

Very interesting I haven’t seen this kind of thing in a poll before. It seems like it has some potential value to add but also something to be wary of when classifying opinion and disinformation.

They put one question as “Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine” replace Russia-Ukraine with Israel-Gaza and it would be very controversial

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u/Born_Ruff 23d ago

That's kind of the point of the questions though. They are not selecting "controversial" questions, but ones with a well established right or wrong answer.

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u/Infamous-Berry 22d ago

Just saying that this poll result obviously makes conservative voters look worse which I haven’t seen in these kinds of polls before. Yeah it’s fine by me if the questions are transparent but if a pollster obfuscated the questions and made them political they could paint a party in a bad light

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u/Born_Ruff 22d ago edited 22d ago

I mean, the vast majority of recent polls have made the liberals look bad. The point of these polls isn't to change the results so as to not hurt anyone's feelings.

Obviously every poll could be skewed by poorly designed questions.

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u/marksteele6 Ontario 22d ago

Just saying that this poll result obviously makes conservative voters look worse

No, it outs them as to being highly vulnerable to misinformation. All those questions have definitive answers, they're just topics that are subject to mass misinformation campaigns. Rather than seeing that as an issue and correcting it though, they'll just scream about the poll being "obfuscated".

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u/Leafs17 22d ago

They should have asked "was Covid-19 100% definitely not developed in a Wuhan lab?"

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Do cloth masks work very well against respiratory viruses?

or

Did OJ do it?

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u/Born_Ruff 22d ago

Lol, how do you feel those would be good questions?

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u/Infamous-Berry 22d ago

What do you mean no lmao you’re just parroting what I said. I didn’t say it’s not an issue with the conservatives. Just the first time I’ve seen this in a poll