http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Sat, 31 May 2008 10:36:50 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333553 Chandra.. Given the diametrically diverse and pluralistic conditions in India, no amount of statistical extrapolation can ever be accurate in India. That is why democracies have periodic elections to measure voter sentiments. Than what is the complusions to have polls? Who really needs them? Only those who want to manipulate voters. Its primary purpose is to manipulate voters. That is why I equated polls to hookers - they try to be a substitute/compliment for the real thing but it can never be real thing. Polls can never be accurate in India in assessing what voters think and want. Pollsters can only be as accurate as astrology - its like dozens of astrologers predicting all likely scenarios and when one of the scenario comes out to be true, you would have at least one astrologer who would be right in predicting it and he than becomes a instant celebrity and touted for his impeccable credentials for accuracy. I can show you such astrologers if you can show me pollsters who have been accurate. 333553@desicritics.org Sat, 31 May 2008 10:36:50 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333542 Kerty-16 Because of none of your judgements and pronouncements about polling are based on facts. And if you think they are....present the facts....List all the states that went to elections in the last 4 years, list all the polls carried out in these states and indicate the variance from the result.....Then, compare this with another country with a large number of parties. Compare the variance in both countries and see if the levels of accuracy are different. 333542@desicritics.org Sat, 31 May 2008 03:22:09 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333521 Chandra, Care to pick up Kerty's bait? Care to explain precisely why illogical arguments are, ummm, illogical? 333521@desicritics.org Fri, 30 May 2008 20:59:39 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333515 Chandra Care to elaborate how/why some of the arguments presented by me or Swapan are devoid of relevance or logic? 333515@desicritics.org Fri, 30 May 2008 20:01:53 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333493 chandra, you must be new to kerty....now you will figure out what i meant in post #7 above... 333493@desicritics.org Fri, 30 May 2008 09:39:58 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333481 Kerty I have not read a more mindless comment as the one above. 333481@desicritics.org Fri, 30 May 2008 07:56:39 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333453 Chandra Just because something is called a profession does not mean it has evolved integrity or that it must be respected. There is a difference between an an op-ed commentator and a pollster. The former opines about what he thinks and he does not have to be right, correct, unbiased, non-partisan in his/her commentary. The pollster on the other hand is posing to 'report' and 'analyse' what other people think and present it as something factual, scientific, statistical - therefore, his/her reporting requires integrity. We expect reporters to be factual, accurate, unbiased, non-partisan. And when they are, they would get the respect they deserve. Just because someone is eking a living at it does not earn them respect automatically. I do not have to respect hookers just because it is their profession and they work hard at it. 333453@desicritics.org Fri, 30 May 2008 01:48:35 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333445 Kerty Swapan dasgupta can shut up. Will he offer to quit if any of his journalistic comments turn out to be untrue? He has made many off late. The poor guy is stuck between trying to cosy upto MM Singh and BJP at the same time... 333445@desicritics.org Fri, 30 May 2008 00:39:18 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333444 Kerty Please have some degree of respect to other people's professions. Most pollsters I know (and I know many) are sincere, unbiased hardworking folks. Please donot say what you said again. 333444@desicritics.org Fri, 30 May 2008 00:37:14 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333432 I do not think polls in India are conducted to assess the real mood of electorate or assess local ground realities. Therefore, polls remain merely a packaged political product. They are used primarily to influence the undecided voters at large, and to spin certain political points that fit within self-serving political strategies. Swapan Dasgupta has a nice write up on polls http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnist1.asp?main_variable=Columnist&file_name=swapan%2Fswapan200%2Etxt&writer=swapan 333432@desicritics.org Thu, 29 May 2008 21:20:47 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333294 Travels, business and social/family events take me out for extended period. Plus too much blogging can become addictive and yet get boring, repetitive - so it feels good to take a break from it. 333294@desicritics.org Wed, 28 May 2008 10:06:47 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333293 Kerty Sahab Kahan gayab ho gaye aap? 333293@desicritics.org Wed, 28 May 2008 09:12:54 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333260 hey kerty, you're BACK!!!! How's your Dosti pub doing? are you all set to post long, barely readable messages for all of us? look forward to tbem... 333260@desicritics.org Tue, 27 May 2008 18:09:11 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333235 Chandra.. I think you nailed it. And the same is true of any kind of polling or statistics in India. It is just impossible to be accurate or meaningful. 333235@desicritics.org Tue, 27 May 2008 14:57:40 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-333199 I would caution readers to track CNN IBN exit Polls with caution. Somehow i am beginning to detect a left wing bias in the analysis. Dorab has been closer to the actual numbers. 333199@desicritics.org Tue, 27 May 2008 01:16:30 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-237236 Just love watching your crap....sink without even creating a ripple.... 237236@desicritics.org Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:28:40 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-237030 well sweety....judging by the number of comments on your post i would have to say ...most people found it......a load of crap. 237030@desicritics.org Mon, 2 Jul 2007 17:14:18 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-236675 I think you've said that already - anything productive to add? 236675@desicritics.org Sun, 1 Jul 2007 07:06:53 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/07/01/061329.php#comment-236671 WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP.............. 236671@desicritics.org Sun, 1 Jul 2007 06:42:03 EDT