Malacanang has come out swinging against the October 2007 Pulse Asia survey that found President Arroyo the “most corrupt President” in the history of the Philippines.
PMS Chief Cerge Remonde called it “unfair, unkind, and un-Christian.”
Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo said surveys like these were largely irrelevant. “Pinakamahalaga ang walang sawang serbisyo ng Pangulo sa milyun-milyong Pilipino, hindi ang rating niya sa mga survey ng 1,500 tao.”
The insinuation that the small sample size of such surveys rendered them insignificant was echoed in one of Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye’s statements. He said: “We therefore vehemently challenge the survey results which could have been influenced by a number of distorting factors such as the sample (1,200 respondents out of 84 million Filipinos), possibly misleading questions and even the person or persons who commissioned the survey.”
Executive Secretary Ed Ermita later amplified on that last point. Clearly referring to ex-senator Serge Osmena, he said: “It’s a pity that because of politics, certain elements — organizations or individuals – are using the survey as a fodder for their relentless attack on the President.”
Are the President’s men arguing reasonably? Judge for yourself. In Newsstand, I list many links, to Pulse Asia, to previous readings of earlier surveys, to the science of opinion polling. One thing I did not include there, which we can put to good use here, is the Sample Calculator. How big should your sample be, if you want it to be representative of the population you are surveying?
Go ahead. Give it a try.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
clipmaster
to abbygail
ty madam……
ala eh, kung lahat seryoso, tatanda tayong lahat agad……
mas nagproproblema pa yata tayo kaysa kay gma……
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Problem? Who? Gloria Lavandera? She don’t have problem she have plenty of money to do whatever she want to do. Ako ang my problem!
December 19th, 2007 at 8:18 am
abbygail
what is this i heard, that the media scion is raging mad bec. their media outfit is not the #1 station in the latest nielsen survey?
so, is he any different from the govt apologists who do not trust the surveys?
nagtatanong lang po…e di magpasurvey sya ng sarili nya para sila ang #1 :-((
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walang pinagkaiba sa mga politico, pag hindi nag number 1, dinaya daw sila…….
ipasara na lang nila ang ibang network stations, mahilig naman sila sa monopolya……..
para maski anong survey ang gawin, sila ang number 1………
December 19th, 2007 at 8:03 am
to abbygail
ty madam……
ala eh, kung lahat seryoso, tatanda tayong lahat agad……
mas nagproproblema pa yata tayo kaysa kay gma……
December 18th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
to bert…
thanks, apologies accepted. i’m glad you wrote that i want the best for our country, just like everyone else.
to kabayan…your piece re stop the corruption is good. all we need
is a president who will implement the no-nonsense policies w/c you have outlined. the scenario i am talking about now is the post-gma already, not the present…
i have one reason why policies of transparency and good governance are not being implemented…anyone who wins the presidency is always beholden to the political supporters/vested interests(payback) who pooled in their resources for their candidates to win…how can we extricate ourselves from this sickening system? i’m sure the next pres. after gma will be beholden again to some groups.
reading kabayan, padang, jaywalker, bert brings me back to my univ. days when you wrestle w/ everyone incldg. your profs. re ways to run (or not to run) govt. effectively…
thank you for your ideas…
p.s. to clipmaster, i like your kind of humor. makes my day!
Merry Christmas to All!
December 18th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Thanks for the links Political Jaywalker, please feel free to add to the list of anomalies and mismanagement which I may have missed.