Poll from Harvard

This "poll" has an awful lot of personal questions.

Doesn't say the organization posting the poll. I'd stay away.

I stopped when all the personal questions were asked.

The most personal question I saw was "Are you a member of the NRA?", which was the last or next-to-last question of the survey. After that, the questions were to create an account. Or did I miss something? I answered all of the questions, but did not create an account. Not that I put any stock in surveys anyway, because, as seen, gun owners are reticent to answer, so most of the polling results favor non-owners anyway...

Looks to me like the organization posting the poll is some place called "Harvard University."

Didn't see any questions more personal than "are you a member of the NRA."


To the question:

Is there anything else you would like to tell us with respect to your opinions on gun control?

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I answered:

"Gun control is not about guns, it's about control.
"Someone who is already willing to violate society's prohibitions against violently attacking another human being is not very likely to be put off by more laws that do nothing but punish otherwise law abiding citizens.
"Normal people do not just one day turn around and suddenly become murderous psychopaths. By the time someone commits murder, he almost always has a long and predictable path of escalating behavior. Go ask your psychology department."

The "personal questions" after the end are "sorting" questions, which are typical in survey research.

How good those categories are, is subject to questions--does int really matter if more people making $60K have one opinion more than those making $70K? Or tose professing one religious or political belief Still, such things are elements of information collected under academic rigor, rather than the willy-nilly of most news/journo surveys (which are meant to "create" news, not report it [grrrrr]).

O, and it looks like if you bailed early, your results were not recorded.

Thanks for completing our survey! Your responses are valuable to us.
If you liked participating in this study, we invite you to sign up for future research opportunities. On the next page, you'll have the opportunity to sign up to receive future surveys through The Harvard Digital Lab for the Social Sciences (DLABSS).
As part of the sign-up process, DLABSS will ask yo for your email, and will prompt you to answer a set of questions about yourself. It will only take about 2-3 minutes to sign up.

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If you want to sign up to receive future surveys, they ask you a bunch of questions about yourself. Otherwise, thanks for completing it & they value your responses.

Maybe if more Second Amendment advocates were less paranoid and participated in these kind of surveys, researchers could get a more accurate picture of what people really think.

If anyone gets the results, would you please post them, they did ask a lot of personal questions at the end to categorize, I just answered "I don't know" on the ones I didn't like.

Click on the right arrow. A box will appear that gives you the option to continue without answering.

Personal questions? Or just demographic qualifiers?
I do not do surveys

P5 Guy said:

Personal questions? Or just demographic qualifiers?

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The latter, as far as I can tell.

I answered the questions and signed up. There were no questions that are offensive to me or what I would consider anti-gun. I think all of us who care about the Second Amendment should take this survey. Those of you who choose not to I think are playing in to the hands of the anti-gunners.

Done, I gave them quite the list of questions to chew on in the written portion.

"On a scale of 1-100, please rate your satisfaction with the nation's current gun control policies."

HA, Zero, the same as anti-gunners but for an entirely different set of reasons.

Such a bad question.

Dibbs said:

This "poll" has an awful lot of personal questions.

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easily altered just enough.....

I’m confused, if I’m unsatisfied, does that mean I want less control, or more?

Zero rates that question

627PCFan said:

"On a scale of 1-100, please rate your satisfaction with the nation's current gun control policies."

HA, Zero, the same as anti-gunners but for an entirely different set of reasons.

Such a bad question.

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This is a question that can be spun any way you want it, I went with 75% because I think we have plenty of gun control already. I sure don't want them to get the impression that we want more. They will do what they want with this question regardless.

Allen One1 said:

This is a question that can be spun any way you want it, I went with 75% because I think we have plenty of gun control already. I sure don't want them to get the impression that we want more. They will do what they want with this question regardless.

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I think they’ll understand what I meant by my zero on that question when they get to my written questions for them to ponder over.

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I think they’ll understand what I meant by my zero on that question when they get to my written questions for them to ponder over.

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I have no doubt that they will understand your answer correctly but I do think they will spin the question to fit their predetermined agenda. Thanks,

I do have to say that it has been 5 days now, and not a single email--counts as a 'win" for that.

I participated, but at least one of the questions was unclear. The answers to "Are you a member of the National Rifle Association" are yes, no, other.

Seems to me that's a binary question.

Is this Harvard? { yes, no, other }

PatientWolf said:

Hopefully they will get a big turnout that’s pro-2A, they will report it accurately and the it won’t be a falsely skewed message.

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ok but the purpose of polling is not to assess popular opinion. It is to shape public opinion.

Don't kid yourself. Someone has an agenda to push. I took the poll, but do not expect accurate results from any organization even remotely associated with Harvard University.