What Surveys Prove

 

nothing.

 

absolutely, nothing at all.

 

survey companies are as corrupt or more graft-ridden than governments, fly-by-night business, underworld moneymaking machines and fraud NGOs.  and yet they have the gall to partner with institutions like US AID! Konrad Adenaüer Foundation! or other somesuch, ersatz AidNGOs — for moneymaking! the Asian Institute of Management!  merely for the propagation of stats on poverty, hunger, malnutrition, while their left hand takes illegal bribe for rigged surveys.

 

survey classic example:

 

enumerator for Prominent Survey Co. to respondent:  This is a survey on the oil crisis. Are you pro- or anti-Arroyo?

 

respondent (female 4th year high school student of Ramon Magsaysay High School):  I’m not pro- nor anti po.

 

survey enumerator:  Where does your father/mother work?

respondent:  My dad works in government po.

 

survey Enumerator:  Ay, pro-GMA ka pala!  Di bale na!  Iba na lang!

 

ah, excuse me … !  (calling to another student)

 

does that reflect good survey ethics?  Will that redeem the value of Philippine Surveys?

 

prominent survey companies or not, Philippine opinion polls are shit.

 

this, has major implications on the 2010 elections.

 

that is the reason why political opposition, this early are already trending:  GMA is kiss of death kuno.

 

how many reasons for the surveys to keep repeating the assertion?

 

in the US, the heavy use of electronic media and technology could be made to look like one candidate is already winning because it gives the semblance that “he’s everywhere”.

 

when it is not really the truth.

 

in RP, the opposition are everywhere too.

 

in the streets, in hotels, in universities, colleges, in foreign embassies and consulates, in theaters and moviehouses, in tv and radio studios, restaurants, Starbucks, in 7-11s, in the old Baywalk area, in Malls, beer houses, sleaze joints, girlie bars, gay bars, lesbian bars, public toilets, public baths, garbage dumps, sewerage, manure pits, trash cans, underground wells, subterranean caves and caverns, in hell and high water…

 

soaking up in their past and recent success and victory in survey ratings for their own kind and benefit.

 

survey companies are absolutely bereft of values and morals, and as we said, always inclined to take money with their left hand while the right hand gestures animatedly about their moralisms on the impoverished state of the Filipino, the hunger of the Filipino, the lack of government concern for the poor. wow!!!

 

Mahar, FPJ’s cousin, SWS

Rapa, Cory’s nephew, PulseAsia

and so on, the list goes

Felipe Miranda, ARO, related? or not? to Ms. Tidalgo-Miranda, SWS?

how many more of them are tied to one another?

it’s a mafia.

a survey mafia.

 

sneaky devils, that lot!

 

hmmmm….