Pseudo/Unscientific poll

In class the other day we discussed pseudo/unscientific polls. Dr. Gelbman encouraged us to write a blog post about such a poll that connected to our topic. The poll I found comes from the website of Charles B. Rangle congress man for New York's 15th District. I picked this poll because the topic of Elder-Care is directly effected by any changes made to the public health care options. In this poll 71.8% of the people who chose to participate favored universal health care for everyone. Real polls find this number to be closer to a 50-50 split. This poll is unscientific for a couple reasons. One being that it comes right out and says it is unscientific. The second being the only people who would really take part in this poll are people that support this congressman. Also this poll doesn't collect any demographic data so you really can't tell what kind of sample population you are getting.


http://rangel.house.gov/cblog/2009/06/health-care-reform-poll-results.html