3% of Pennsylvanians have a positive view of Jerry Sandusky

[Liberal_in_LA]

Poll shows Joe Paterno still popular in Pennsylvania

In a Public Policy Polling survey, 51% of Pennsylvanians have a positive view of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno. Not shocking.

The fact that 3% also have a positive view of Paterno's former assistant Jerry Sandusky is a little more surprising.

And while Paterno is still liked, 45% of the voters thought it was the best decision to fire him while 38% disagreed with the move.

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A statement by PPP says no one has ever polled as poorly as Sandusky who had an 88% unfavorable rating. But 3% still give him a vote of approval even though he is currently being investigated for sexual abuse of children.


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/11/poll-shows-joe-paterno-still-popular-in-pennsylvania/1

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. That's a million people!

Polling, think about it...

:think:

[ZombieHorde]

2. Maybe 3% of the population are pedophiles? nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. must be. Everyone who stated positive view should be checked out

[durablend]

5. Most of them probably Republican

And blame the victims for the crime. Sandusky is the innocent party in all of this...can't help it if little boys like his peepee.

Or something like that....

[Whisp]

8. my first thought.

and confirmed.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pedophilia

Prevalence

The extent to which pedophilia occurs is not known with any certainty, due to the fact that even those who act on their attraction are often not reported since the encounter may stop short of intercourse and young victims may be unable or afraid to report the abuse. However, considerable research has been carried out, both on those who have been identified as perpetrators of sexual abuse against children and on samples of normal adults.

John Bradford, a psychiatrist with two decades of experience studying pedophilia, estimated that 4 percent of the population meet the criteria for diagnosis (Cloud 2002). Others have concluded that at least a quarter of all adult men may have some feelings of sexual arousal in connection with children (Hall et al. 1995, Freund and Costell 1970, Quinsey et al. 1975). Hall's study, for example, found that approximately 30 percent of their sample—consisting of 80 adult males—exhibited sexual arousal to heterosexual pedophilic stimuli that equaled or exceeded their arousal to the adult stimuli. Further studies indicated that even men erotically fixated on adult females are generally prone to react sexually when exposed to nude female children (Freund et al. 1972). A significant proportion (one-third) of undergraduate students who acknowledged sexual attraction to small children also conceded some probability of actually having sex with a child if they could avoid detection and punishment (Briere and Runtz 1989).

[ZombieHorde]

9. Damn. Sometimes random guessing hits a mark.

Of course we don't really know if the 3% were actually pedophiles.

[Orangepeel]

4. USA today doesn't understand margin of error n/t

[provis99]

7. right. Sandusky's popularity could be as high as 7%.

[Orangepeel]

10. :-)

:thumbsup:

[lunatica]

6. That's an awful small Fox News viewership

[kudzu22]

11. I'm going to guess that those 3% actually thought he was someone else

Like Colonel Sanders. Or Jerry Seinfeld.