I wrote about today’s IT/IPSOS MRBI ‘Perceptions’ poll: http://hardcorefornerds.tumblr.com/post/68559805193/begging-the-question-of-political-perceptions
The (mis)leading questions in the poll were bad enough, but reading Stephen Collins carp on about in the paper (with Maureen Gaffney to put a psychological gloss on his conclusions) got me really riled up this morning. The breathtaking arrogance with which he describes the public as ‘mistaken’ and (in the editorial which one presumes he had a hand in writing) ‘deluded’ while ignoring any of the complexities of the issues or the polling, is galling.