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...through a tuition increase. Polls that contain a political message (e.g., a living wage might cost you more) have been termed “push polls” and their use in last fall’s campaigns to transmit falsehoods about candidates has been decried. Legitimate surveys avoid biased and vague items like the plague. Such questions not only produce meaningless results, they bias the answers to the questions that follow them by shaping the meaning respondents attach to them. And in e-mail surveys, respondents can see all the questions before answering any of them, meaning answers...
However, any study conducted by the College Board raises complicated issues, ranging from bias to the cost of the studies...
Ewing said the panel would need to hire researches to do independent studies that would not be accused of bias...
Though he admits to a certain pro-Chicago bias, Pippin insists that Chicago's course offerings make its program superior...
...can’t convince myself that PSLM’s demands are revolutionary. If they are, I will have been on the outside, without thermodynamics to excuse my participation—just my arrogance. For the moment, I will deny my desire to throw away my conservative bias and run into Mass Hall to support the living wage campaign—for the sake of being a part of history. But as the protest continues and its tactics become increasingly aggressive, it becomes more and more obvious that I am further reduced to the background as just another passive...