Over the course of the year, WRGW News will be conducting opinion polling to gauge the general opinions and sentiments of the student body. The polls will focus on what GW students think about national issues, campus issues, and will also survey students on their views on the Student Association, including its leaders and potential SA presidential election match ups later in the school year.
View the results of the WRGW News Poll here.
The first WRGW News Poll shows that students overwhelming reject YAF's (Young Americans Foundation) charge that Michelle Obama and the University are politicizing community service stemming from Obama's community service challenge.
The WRGW News Poll also finds that a plurality of non-freshmen feel that Kyle Boyer was unfairly kicked off the ballot by the JEC last year, and an overwhelming majority of students have a very poor opinion of the job performance of former SA president Vishal Aswani from last year.
There are many other questions in the poll, including questions on the swine flu, health care reform, and President Obama's approval rating, so check them out.
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Wow, very interesting. Great job with this poll Dan!
ReplyDeleteIf you took a stat class, you'd realize that your polling sample was too small for anyone to take you seriously. Just like how The Hatchet put it, WRGW is a dead fish.
ReplyDeleteIf you took a poli sci class, you'd realize that sample size isn't everything. Ironically, the Hatchet conducted their own poll during the 2008 election and although it had almost 3 times the number of respondents as our poll, it was grossly unrepresentative of the student body because they used a bad sample.
ReplyDeleteOur poll is actually a good slice of the general undergrad population at GW. We could have polled 1,000 GW students, but if they were all male or all female, or all in a fraternity, it was not be a representative poll and wouldn't be much of a random sample either.
A representative sample trumps sample size, ask any political science professor, or read any book about political science before making uniformed and anonymous comments.
With that said, future polls will probably have a greater sample size to better gauge subsets of demographics for things like SA elections.