Reply #24: So at gallup have you ever been told to manipulate the responses? [View All]

[patcox2]

I assume you were doing research in house in your story? I do fail to see how producing a crappy and unscientific survey for cost-driven reasons amounts to manipulation. To me, manipulation involves purposely skewing the responses to get a desired result, through using known bias-inducing factors. Your story just indicates that for reasons of cost, they produced an innacurate survey. But you were not asked, for example, to draft the questions and present the response ranges in such an order as to induce a bias towards positive repsonses. That would be manipulation.

Have you ever been asked to produce a particular result?