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Ep. 376: Overcoming Bias with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Frank Luntz and the Use of Statistics

The key in survey research is to ask questions that people care about the answers and to ask a question in a way that you get the right answer. So who gets to decide what is the right answer, the pollster? What you will find is that to virtually the same question with just a single change of wording, you'll get a very different reaction in terms of how they think and how they feel. Watch how we got this man to give two different answers about government spending on illegal immigrants. Would you deny emergency room care to illegal immigrants? Maybe he spent too much on illegal programs for immigrants.

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