[EL] Push polling

[Schultz, David A.]

Amen to Adam.

Furthermore, the only way a push-poll works is by deception--describing to
someone something that is not true.

I chaired our Human Subjects Research Panel for a decade.  If research
proposal came before me or my committee with a survey relying upon
deception we would not have approved it.  Such polling would arguably
violate federal law (45 CFR 46) regarding the use of human subjects for
research.

Remember that the Stanley Milgram experiment relied on deception and the
lack of informed consent is one of the problems with that experiment.
Push-polling uses deception and rests upon a violation of informed consent.


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Adam Bonin <adam at boninlaw.com> wrote:

> If it’s ethical, and a “valuable service,” it’s not a push poll.  A push
> poll is an advertisement done over the phone in the form of a poll.  It is
> not a poll.****
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] *On Behalf Of *Jon Roland
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> Not necessarily. There are all kinds of push polls. I can certainly design
> one that would be ethical and a valuable service to public discourse.
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> On 05/03/2013 01:35 PM, Michael P McDonald wrote: ****
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> You say that a poll should not pretend to be something it is not. A hallmark of a push poll is falsehoods masquerading as a poll, thereby giving the impression they must be true since they are delivered in a question format that credible polling organizations use.****
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