During the past couple of weeks I have seen the results of several polls. The widely divergent results ( some totally absurd) confused me. I decided do carry out my own poll. I am honest, reasonable and non partisan therefore the perfect pollster.
Date - January 16, 2010 (10 days before the election)
Place - Neighborhood of our parliament
Occasion - Funeral House ( mala batha)
Sample - 26
Result - Sarath Fonseka 21
Mahinda Rjapaksa 4 ( brave people )
Undecided 1 ( coward)
Percentages - Sarath Fonseka 80%
Mahinda Rajapaksa 20%
Interpretation - Not a random sample of the population.
Benefit - I found out the reasons for the widely diverging poll results.
1. Sample not random
2. Results are works of fiction ( nobody was asked)
Note : I ate too much rice with dry fish curry, my Favourite food, so have been in hibernation till now.
What about pumpkin? Aren't they supposed to serve pumpkin + dried fish for Mala batha?
ReplyDeleteNot "Undecided" voters are coward, but you are. For surely!
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