Pew study citing Rush Limbaugh listeners among "most informed"

[Fountain79]

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=1068

Judged by their answers to three news knowledge questions2, the most informed audiences belong to the political magazines, Rush Limbaugh's radio show, the O'Reilly Factor, news magazines, and online news sources. Close behind are the regular audiences for NPR and the Daily Show.

I heard this on Rush's show and immediately wanted to retch. I can almost always tell when someone listens to him regularly because they almost always use the same talking points, it's amazing. I looked at the fine print of this study...this is how the research determined how informed people were, they ask them these three questions:

Which party has a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives?

What is the name of the current U.S. Secretary of State?

What is the name of the current president of Russia?

That's how they determined how informed someone was? jesus...

[idgiehkt]

1. three friggin questions?

Holy shit. And you can't tell me they knew who the president of Russia is. This is such crap.

[jsamuel]

2. :O (also this is slanted to republicans)

what a horrible "informed" poll

1. Republican
2. Republican
3. Republican Pres. just had a tussle with him

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. Precisely.

[WePurrsevere]

21. Very true...my college statistics prof would be going nuts. If a REAL poll

were done about which political party has the most LIARS I'll bet the CONs would come way out ahead. They're programed to lie and especially for polls. Just like anyone can register as a Democrat and be a dyed in the wool RepubliCON so too can anyone can SAY they have a college degree while the only PHD they may have is one as a "post hole digger". Pollster's take you at your word but what is said doesn't make it any more true then this administrations BS about WMDs in Iraq.

Questions in polls are often designed to get the results the person/company commissioning them wants so I'd like to know who commissioned this and... what turd blossom (Protégé?) came up with those BS questions?

(edited to fix spelling)

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. Breakdown according to party voting

Republicans and Democrats were pretty even on control of the House of Reps, and the Secretary of State - it was the non-partisan 'president of Russsia' question on which Democrats were significantly behind the Republicans. And the 18-29 age group scored a shameful 15% on naming Putin.

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=1070

[jsamuel]

31. ouch, I guess I am one of the 15%'ers, it also seems that men did better

than women by double on the Putin question (42% to 23%) So does that mean that only 10% of 18-29 year old women knew the answer to that question? Wow...

[sendero]

3. It just goes to show..

.. there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[Swamp Rat]

4. "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a poll rigged for

IDIOTS?" :D

[ThomCat]

5. They need to build their fake credentials.

Their audience needs some kind of credential they can repeat over and over again to convince themselves that they are smart.

[Bjornsdotter]

6. They are the most informed

...when it comes to bullshit and that's about it. When the facts are brought into play, they know nothing.

Cheers

[TwentyFive]

7. Figures don't lie - but liars figure. n/t

[liberal N proud]

8. Another fabrication of the information to meet the needs of the regime

Do you call full of shit and high on oxycotton INFORMED?
A

[Jim__]

9. Who commissioned this poll?

They probably dumbed down the question until they got the results that they wanted.

[rock]

10. Also notice those are safe questions

Not technical, nor are they news.

[bbinacan]

11. Wow such

tough questions.:sarcasm:

[Xipe Totec]

12. In other news, the word gullible is not in the dictionary

Puleeze!

:eyes:

[KittyWampus]

13. Why didn't they ask if any WMD were found in Iraq?

[supernova]

14. Somebody actually GOT PAID for this tripe?

:grr: :grr:

It's not like you would want to know actually answers or anything... like...

Who is Valerie Plame and why is she important?

What is yellowcake?

Who are the swiftboaters and what is their significance in the 2004 elections?

What is the Likkud Party?

[Fountain79]

15. damn..

"What is the Likkud Party?"

I had to look that one up...

[MODemocrat]

16. Limbaugh's audience more informed?

:+ :+ :+ :+ :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Now that's a good one!

[bleedingheart]

17. probably all those liberals who torture themselves listening to Rush

so they can dismiss the arguments his stupid dittoheads come up with...

[zbdent]

19. Is Sherrod Brown black?

Does the US have more forest acreage now than it had in 1776?

That would eff up the poll ...

[Donnachaidh]

20. who financed this study?

Rupert Murdoch?

[warrens]

22. Repetition is not the same as informing

Anyone who spends three or four hours a day listening to any news source will know those answers, by osmosis. If they want to truly measure knowledge, ask what three ethnic/religious groups dominate Iraq, or something that requires a LITTLE thought, not just regurgitation of names you've heard a million times a day.

This sort of test is going to distinctly favor quantity over quality. And as we know, Rushbo listeners are glued to the radio for three hours every day. When they asked Rush listeners to explain the U.S. healthcare system back when Clinton was trying to get reform passed, Rushbo's audience both claimed that it was the best informed on the subject and was the least able to answer questions about the present and proposed systems.

So, this is total BS>

[lies and propaganda]

23. most informed about where to buy your stash?

Mexican maids right?

[wisteria]

24. LOL, yeah, informed with wrong and misleading information! n/t

[sakabatou]

25. There was another test, awhile back...

Over 50 questions I believe, and people that listened to Rush et al were the least informed.

It was the PIPA study at the University of Maryland.

[oberliner]

26. so more than half of Rush's listeners don't know

Who the Secretary of State is?

I wonder if putting "Condi" gave them partial credit.

[ComerPerro]

27. what a pathetic study

[flordehinojos]

29. limpball's audience might be informed--they are still ignorant.

[karlrschneider]

30. College graduates who get news from the Daily Show scored

the same as those who listen to Lush...