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 15th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Bert
swerte ng malakanang, masyado improve ng economy nila ayon sa survey, ayon din sa ilang fans nila, maski ang baba ng palitan ng dollar sa peso, at, maski doble na ang presyo ng galunggong at asukal ngayon happy pa rin sila. sarap buhay. tayo, dugo pawis–pawis dugo, noodles na lang almusal, tanghalian, at hapunan. Hu-hu-hu-hu-hu, hikbi…..
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Of course they’re happy! They can afford to buy anything they want. After all the have plenty of money.
December 15th, 2007 at 7:14 am
By all means Political Jaywalker, no prob
You may like to put your web address here as well, some people may be interested in your blog.
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No prob too abbygail, mistakes happen
December 15th, 2007 at 2:55 am
Kabayan,
I hope you don’t mind I took the liberty of posting your list in my blog at Pedestrian Observer titled Perception War vs. Reality.
December 15th, 2007 at 1:27 am
swerte ng malakanang, masyado improve ng economy nila ayon sa survey, ayon din sa ilang fans nila, maski ang baba ng palitan ng dollar sa peso, at, maski doble na ang presyo ng galunggong at asukal ngayon happy pa rin sila. sarap buhay. tayo, dugo pawis–pawis dugo, noodles na lang almusal, tanghalian, at hapunan. Hu-hu-hu-hu-hu, hikbi…..
December 15th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Granted that the purpose of the survey was purely propaganda why then will they counter the same with propaganda instead of addressing the corruption scandal plaguing this administration? Oh wait, I guess they can’t do that and shoot themselves in the foot…… should they honestly investigate and prosecute those crooked wheeling and dealing bureaucrats they might step on teir own toes and prosecute themselves, lol.
Here is an unsollicited advice to Bunye and palace rah rah boys and girls……. why not commission a survey on the opposition too and I am sure the people will see a parallelism on both. Just like the on and off De Bola and Lady Presidenta’s lovey dovey kissing and making up in public while back stabbing each other behind their back it will be a good revelation for the people to see the kind of political leaders we have fighting over the spoils of an abused and exploited nation. Since you are all stuck in this pathetic perception game why not go all out so we can all cheat errr sit back and enjoy the circus freak show.