I Wonder How Many Surveys are Made Up of Inaccurate Info

August 10, 2008 by Holly in reproductive rights  

I was doing some blog hopping earlier because seriously, what’s better than catching up on the blogs you love to read but sometimes are too busy to visit as often as you’d like? I was reading A Whole Lot of Nothing and came across this post.

Apparently, some calls had went out asking people to participate in a survey about abortion. As a pro-choice woman (and mother, might I add for good measure) she decided to take the survey, which is exactly what I would also do given the opportunity to put my two cents into a survey on a topic I feel extremely passionate about. Here’s what went down:

extra-uber-friendly voice: “If you are Pro-Life and believe life begins at conception and want to see that all babies, born and unborn, are worth saving, PRESS ONE.”

Holding….

non-friendly sad-lady voice: “If you are Pro-Choice and believe that a woman has the right to end the life of her baby at any time during her pregnancy, PRESS NINE.”

Pressing NINE

extra-uber-friendly voice: “Thank you for choosing Pro-Life and believing that a baby’s life begins at conception! If you’d like to help our cause, please contact….”

Don’t you just love that? As she points out in her post, perhaps her pro-choice self is just too dumb and mixed up the numbers nine and one. Maybe she suddenly had Parkinson’s and her hand just started shaking and she pressed one instead. Yeah, I don’t think so, either.

It is quite ridiculous, which I’ve said again and again but am saying yet again now, that these people not only feel the need to disturb you at home by calling and asking you to take a survey, but then they aren’t even using the info that their call collects? Sorry to break it to you pro-lifers, but not everyone thinks the way you do and spoofing a survey isn’t going to start making people that there are more people who would love to refuse women the rights over their own bodies than those who love and respect women and their decisions to do what is right for them.

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  • Thanks for passing along the info. To reiterate, I don't hate all pro-lifers - quite the opposite. It's just the tactics they use to 'defend' their point that are deplorable.
  • Xbox4NappyRash
    I think you've successfully managed to take a post that wasn't bashing "Crazy pro-life loony assholes" (your words), and turn it into one that is.

    In my book, this post is no better than the original survey.
  • Oh I know that the original post wasn't bashing pro-lifers, I did that one on my own and here's why: Because I'm right (in most cases) If you'd like to see for yourself, go down to the bottom of this website, look under tags, click on anti-choice or extremism and have fun. Thanks for reading!
  • I think when people use something like that to try to get their point across just tend to make themselves look stupid.
  • Sadly, I wouldn't expect anything else from them.
  • Hi, thanks for the interesting info. I wonder too! But like summemr Iwouldn't expect anything else from them.
  • That is why it is survey, it means to approve or negate something.
  • It's so true. I hate when people throw surveys in my face as "proof" of whatever their cause is-- even when feminists do it. It reveals a profound misunderstanding of how these kinds of things are made and how "official knowledge" can be utterly subjective.

    Thanks for this post!
  • I haven't trusted most survey data since I took AP stats in high school and my teacher spent a lot of time demonstrating the many ways to make data prove your point even when it doesn't. Of course, this is even worse. Oy. Thanks for putting the information out there - people need to know!
  • Surveys may not be the most accurate way of doing studies but there definitely are ways to take a poll of a group of people and get some usefull information out of it.

    For the abortion issue just simply look at the number of people that get abortions.
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