HEARING INDEX: POLLS & SURVEYS

Complaint	Hearing # Year	Decision	Media	Description
Inaccurate opinion poll	#18 1975	N	Mpls Star & Mpls Tribune	Two independent candidates for governor complained about inaccuracy of opinion poll results
Unsound methodology	#33 1978	N	Minneapolis Tribune	Unsound methodology in presenting results of survey on U students' attitudes toward abortion
Unscientific survey	#38 1979	U	Minneapolis Tribune	Taste-test survey of chocolates unscientific in that it gave subjective judgments of unnamed people with unknown qualifications
Unscientific survey	#100 1994	U	Worthington Daily Globe	"Survey" on racism said to represent views of area residents, but actually represented views of 250 anonymous respondents, less than 2% of readership
Incomplete information given to allow readers to interpret public opinion poll	#120 1998	N	Fargo Forum	Professor says paper did not give readers information they would need to understand the reliability and validity of a public opinion poll on school funding.