[wanabidii] INFOTRAK, IPSOS Synovate and other POLLSTERS on the SPOT as BITANGE NDEMO fumes

What is an opinion poll in your mother tongue -  Bitange Ndemo!

 

Dr.Ndemo is wondering if learned people dismiss results of opinion polls,how will a villager take it if its contrary to his/her favourite candidate!

 

The other day,we got to know who owns Infotarck .Its time to know the owner of Infotrack.

 

Lakini,si ata sisi tunaweza toa maoni ya kura hapa hapa!

 

Evans MACHERA

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Subject: Re: [PK] INFOTRAK, IPSOS Synovate and other POLLSTERS on the SPOT as BITANGE NDEMO fumes

OKKKKEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.....

 

He's SPOT ON and he asks valid Qs. But wait until he gets a lecture on polls from Makau Mutua.!

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Kuria-Mwangi <kjmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:

INFOTRAK, IPSOS Synovate and other POLLSTERS on the SPOT as BITANGE NDEMO fumes

The Kenyan DAILY POST News 07:45

Wednesday, the 30^th of January 2013 - In the wake of the recent furor over opinion polls that seem to favour particular candidates, Information and Communication Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo has said that it is important for the opinion pollsters to disclose their financiers to the public.

The PS further accused the pollsters of deceiving the public by insisting that they finance their own activities when in reality they are profit driven business;

"These are private organisations. They must disclose how they were funded. They don't fund themselves. Why would you be funding yourselves? What gain do you get?" Ndemo said.

"If say the University of Nairobi did that you would understand because it is a public institution."

Ndemo said that it is also time for the pollsters to make public their methodologies and also inform the public better when carrying out their research.

"What do you call opinion polling in your language?" Ndemo posed. "And you are learned. Now take it to someone who hasn't gone to school."

"If you are told so and so is winning in vernacular and then r
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