12-10-2015, 03:37 PM
(12-10-2015, 02:40 PM)Benton Wrote: Seems like a bad poll. 128% of people say no, 50% say yes and 11% don't care. So 189% of people responded.
Plus, the question is worded awkwardly. It doesn't ask if the respondent would commit violence, only if violence could be justified. Just judging by the stuff people post on Facebook, if you ask the majority of people if it's understandable to bomb another country to defend the U.S./Christianity/funny cat videos... they'd say yes. That doesn't mean they would do it, only that they understand why someone would.
Mike already covered the math part. You are right about the question, though, and that is one of my issues with some of the inferences made from the data. It's assuming more than what the data provides information on. From what I have read on this organization, though, it seems that could have been intentional.
