A new polling organisation, Prolific, has challenged recent polling by Ipsos MORI that suggested a surprisingly high percentage of Brits believe lockdown restrictions should stay in place “permanently”.
Prolific believed that if the questions asked by Ipsos MORI were changed slightly, the results would come out very differently. How right it was! The results of its own poll have been published in the Financial Times.
A 70-person Oxford-based polling start-up called Prolific… decided to carry out their own 24-hour survey, using a representative sample of 978 people in the U.K. – very similar to the Ipsos poll which surveyed 1,025 people – to see what the results would be if they changed the questions a little. As they explained to us:
“We ran pretty much the same study as Ipsos, but we… adapted our survey accordingly. Specifically:
“We added a timeframe to the study, ‘Until Restrictions lift on July 19th’ We removed the word ‘rule’ from the study and replaced it with ‘idea’
“We modified the wording of the scale items to make it seem less like a rule, e.g. ‘Having to wear masks in shops and on public transport’ → ‘Wearing a mask in shops and on public transport’ .”
Prolific also changed the question that Ipsos had asked about restrictions remaining in place “permanently, regardless of the risk of Covid” to “permanently, even if there were little to no risk of Covid” – as we pointed out in our post earlier this week, the word “risk” tends to have negative associations,
And it turns out the results from all these changes were rather different. Specifically:
“Just three per cent support a permanent curfew, compared to 19% according to Ipsos.
“Just six per cent support permanent closure of nightclubs, compared to 26% according to Ipsos.
“13% supported a permanent 10-day quarantine when returning from foreign holidays, compared with 31% according to Ipsos.
When it came to masks, there was slightly less of a difference between the two polls: 31% said they should continue to be worn in shops and on public transport, compared with 40% in the Ipsos poll who said wearing a mask in a public place should be mandatory.
Here is what the Prolific poll results look like as a whole, compared with the Ipsos results represented as crosses (full key below):
What a difference! And as Will Jones recently highlighted, “actions speak louder than words”. The fact that so many people are deleting the NHS Covid app – or never downloaded it in the first place – is surely an indication of the true level of support behind Covid restrictions.
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The fact that Will Jones tried to hoodwink LDS readers with bogus adjustments to the survey stats that overestimate app usage and underestimate those refusing to use the app (or deleting it). Will also omitted to mention that 33% of those surveyed intended to ditch the app on the 19th July. This was highlighted in the referenced Metro article
Over 24 hours later, and despite this sleight of hand being pointed out, LDS has failed to acknowledge and correct the original article. LDS, the government’s favourite sceptical voice.
Is that 33% of the total surveyed or 33% of those who had the app? If the former, it suggests almost nobody intends to keep it.
Link to the article referenced by Will in the Metro:
Another third have said they want to delete the app by July 19 when restrictions lift, according to the poll by Savanta ComRes. If the figures were representative, this could mean more than 18 million people have deleted the app already.
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Just as I opined the other day – it’s easy to get these sorts of results if you are polling company prepared to back up the Big Lie machine of Globalism by asking very leading questions. The pollsters are shameless.
If you ask “Do you support hanging for some crimes of murder?” you’ll get one answer if you precede the question with other questions referencing heinous crime and victims and quite another if you precede with questions focussing on victims of injustice and the irreversible nature of the penalty
So why do LS give such credence to polls? It’s the lazy way to think about things. I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that No 10 used huge amounts of polling, more than any previous government.
Better to employ common sense, logic, principles, values, and historical reference. The policies you approve will be much better. Non-stop polling makes people frightened of their own shadow, cynical and slow to respond.
why not get on the pollsters panels. I did with another government favourite, apparently run by vaccine ministers family. Gross overuse of leading questions and another tactic is to show the % of answers given by others to each question presumably to encourage one to ‘correct’ ones errant answer to comply with the party line. I don’t – my answers are usually in the single % outliers. but if 10-20 sceptics join as opposed to the furloughed normies who have nothing else better to do, it brings the poll 1-2% in the right direction,
Surveys like this are known to be extremely sensitive to wording. That’s not a new idea.
But the notion that this new survey is in any way comforting is absolute bollocks.
Have a look at ‘Until Covid is under Control Worldwide’ findings. Remember that real time frame is ‘never’ in the way it will be perceived, even if the sane among us appreciate that the time frame is ‘it already is – as much as it ever will be’.
I could go on taking apart this false optimism about opinion – but the intelligent will get the drift of the need for de-programming.
Indeed
And none of this changes the fundamental arguments that lockdowns don’t work, are a restriction of what should be seen as inalienable rights, COVID was not an unprecedented public health emergency and the use of the powers of the state to spread fear in the population is immoral and should be illegal
If you tell people it’s the 24th biggest cause of death and a fraction of the deaths caused by heart disease or cancer which has been neglected by lockdown you might get the answer that Covid is controlled.
It would make an interesting survey question to ask jo public where they think Covid sits on the list of deadly ailments.
1st? 10th? 20th?
Well given that many seem to think that covid virus particles are in the air everywhere ready to infect and kill them I can preempt the answer to that 1.
But they are. As is every other pathogen that there has ever been. That’s the message we should be sending. As to the ‘infect and kill’ part, aye, there’s the rub. The challenge is not denying the existence (however derived). It’s educating on the severity.
Wasn’t there a survey where people thought covid had killed 8% of the population?
… or the other one that has been asked : “What proportion of the population has died from Covid?”
Probably not. People wouldn’t believe you.
True- my wife tried it at work with a particularly terrified woman, (she took to her bed during lockdown 1, saying it was all too terrible to contemplate), and she flat refused to believe her, saying it was ‘obviously the worst killer- just look at the figures!’ She had no idea how many had died from other causes and didn’t want to know- and quoted a figure of about 10% for deaths, although she had no idea what this meant in reality. There are many people like this and they are beyond redemption. Needless to say, she is near hysterical about ‘freedom day’…
The interpretation of this data is wishful thinking.
The blue dots – what restrictions should be in place until COVID is under control throughout the world – are the important ones. What does it mean for the virus to be “under control”? It may never happen. So the blue dots are potential votes for very long-term restrictions.
How people answer the question will depend on their own definition of “under control” rather than an establishment one, so in practice there will be a spread of what people expect. I suspect, however, that most people won’t care if it’s still raging around in, say, Africa in much the same way they don’t care about ebola, tb and other diseases which still claim many lives there.
A good point
It’s almost as if you can design a poll to give you the opinions you want to see.
Yes; who’d a thunk it?
The classic Yes Minister scene illustrates this perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA&t=29s
Given extra piquancy by the fact that the evil ‘Economist’ commissioned it.
Several people here saying that this poll is potentially just as inaccurate as the Ipsos MORI poll. Likely true, but the thing here is to demonstrate that by altering the questions a bit, you can get a large difference in outcomes. This is useful when people say “but such-and-such poll showed ….”.
Similar thing with “the science”, isn’t it?
And particularly profitable I should think, given the status given to it these days.
I did a quick search on IPSOS MORI to find this Gem, which, together with the article’s original publisher, the former Rothschild owned ECONOMIST, kinda makes 2+2=4
https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/ipsos-mori-received/
The most interesting poll will be: how many people do you see wearing masks in a couple of weeks. My guess is that it’ll be down to a quarter of the population by August.
As the article says: actions speak louder than words. We’re all already spending lots of time in restaurants unmasked for the majority of the time that we are there. We wouldn’t be doing it in such large numbers if we were all nervous nellies. Once being mask free is normalised, most will quickly ditch them, because they don’t like wearing them.
I sincerely hope you’re right.
But indicators aren’t great. I’ve been the only one in a pub or restaurant to laugh at the absurdity of putting on a mask when you stand up, and yesterday, I saw someone on the NW coast of a Hebridean Island wearing a mask on a coastal walk (yes – I know that’s an extreme example).
The herd instinct will surely be important – so let’s hope it begins to work for sanity.
I hope that I’m right, too. I’m an optimist. But, I do think that the mask wearing will fall because when I talk to people, they all are looking forward to taking them off. In restaurants, for example, how many people do you see leaving them on whilst sat at their table but not eating? It’s not the law, but if you thought that the damn things worked, surely you would leave them on until your food arrived? The fact that people aren’t means that they don’t like wearing them, IMO.
Yes – good points. But it could tip either way, is my feeling.
Which brings us to that imponderable ‘the tipping point’. And frankly – I don’t know, although I tend to a more pessimistic guess than you.
If the whole thing starts collapsing, with people realising that their fear is vastly overstated, then I think the relinquishing could accelerate. But the opposite could equally be the case if the psy-op is tweaked – as Johnson did earlier this week. I am seeing so many puppets rather than sentient individual beings, with strings tweaked to evil effect.
The religious muzzle zealots that I have to reluctantly speak to at work seem to be doubling down on their avoidance of human contact, and hatred of those filthy lepers that won’t wear muzzles. Ironically there seems to be an increase in double-stabbed people I know who have suddenly got positive tests, most with actual symptoms. The zealots conveniently erase from their puny minds the fact that the lepers were hallowed stab victims and not filthy anti-vaxxers.
Here’s another string to your bow
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So good to see this, Michael – thank you SO much for letting us know about this msm article. Very cheering.
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I’m certain there’s much more to come on this.
So many powerful people have so much to lose by exposure to sunlight.
The truth will out, then the reckoning begins.
We are of the view that lockdowns are wrong on principle and futile and damaging in practice.
How much of the population agree with us on this does not alter our view. It’s not a popularity contest, it’s about fundemental principles of freedom and democracy, and about empirical science.
I do worry that the LS preoccupation with public opinion is more about some vain hope that their beloved, bold, closet libertarian PM will start listening to different polls and suddenly end the lies. It’s not going to happen. The PM has ACTIVELY MANIPULATED public opinion with the power of the state, and allowed SAGE and others to fearmonger unchecked.
Thinking he’s ready to end it all if the right poll results come along is wishful thinking.
The only hope is if public opinion turns decisively against the government. These poll followers might then take note.
Ipsos MORI has received in excess of $3million in grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and it’s chief executive Ben Page spoke at the World Economic Forum. Got it yet?
That may be correct. But I base my pessimistic view on observation rather than simple poll findings.
Currently, the polls are in line with observation.
BBC online have a voxpop with five people in Breckland, Norfolk, on their website. Person 1 will wear a mask, socially distance and ‘exercise caution’. She won’t wear a mask at work, because she works from home. Person 2 hates masks but will wear them. Person 3 says ‘we should still be cautious’. He still wants the rule of 6 and tests himself for Covid 3 or 4 times a week. Person 4 says ‘I don’t think the masks should go’. Person 5 says she’ll be wearing a face mask, and says, ‘I think it is important to be safe for yourself and others’. I am sure they scoured the town to find someone with a different view, but somehow failed to find anybody..
The BBC probably asked the punters in the pub in the centre of Norwich where the landlord is only going to allow “vaccinated” people in from next week.
Do any of these people have any empirical data to back up their statements? Were they asked what they based their decisions on? Does anyone on here care what they think or want to spend any time with them? I keep pointing out to people that there’s nothing stopping them having their own personal lockdowns, restrictions, mask manias, etc. but it seems that I am speaking a hitherto undiscovered language. I had a fairly low opinion of the general public and their bleating, sheep-like behaviour before all this, but my expectations have been wildly exceeded.
It is only what we all suspected but it’s nice to have it confirmed.
Is the point of these surveys to inform decision makers on which way the wind is blowing?
Or are they used to try to influence public opinion, I assume there are plenty of sheep out there that need to know what the majority are doing so they can follow.
The polls are bent?
Who knew
Exactly. The first poll “having to wear a mask in shops” is asking people to say what other people should do, whereas the second “wearing a mask in shops” is asking them what they would do. The first is not actually a survey of what it pretends to be a survey of, but of something else.
A poll for the appalling ‘Economist’ asks leading questions – who would have thought it?
I despise that deeply evil lie-sheet.
Sorry for the intemperate language, but the ‘Economist’ has been on particularly evil form recently.
In other news “A survey of miserable twats reveals that almost 100% believe nightclubs, pubs, bars and ‘happy-ending massage parlours’ should be closed permanently”
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2020/10/INV016772
ipsos mori gets money from Gates
Who takes part in these polls? I never been asked nor has anyone I know!
Are there statistics for the number of app deletions?
By the way it is just a poll. Near enough worthless per se
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