Recently HT and CNN-IBN conducted a youth survey to understand what the Indian youth thinks. Two major issues raised by the survey has caught Media Watches attention.
First point is regarding the question: Who are the best living role models in India. Sachin Tendulkar won hands worn with 19% vote and Rahul was no where near the top with less than 10% votes.
Second Question: How will you describe your political views? It was surprising to see moderate included as a political view. The youth survey pitted moderate against Right Wing and Left Wing?
It is surprising that HT/IBN has included moderate as a political view in the survey and pitted it against right wing and left wing! Is IBN/HT of view that Right Wing and Left Wing political views are not moderate thus extreme? Any student of statistics will tell HT/IBN that respondents in a survey if given a choice will invariably vote for the middle ground which is ‘Moderate’ in this case. Thus its not surprising that ‘Moderate’ option got largest votes. It is interesting to note that inspite of right wing being positioned as extreme view, it got overwhelming 30% votes. Media Watch hopes IBN/HT was not trying to pass of ‘congress ideology’ as Moderate.
Secondly, It is surprising that only two political leaders (Rahul and Sonia) were included in the survey which tried to identify “Best living role model for youth”. Dont IBN/HT think 30% of respondents who identified themselves as Right Wing may want to chose a leader from Right Wing? Media Watch is of opinion that If such an option of Right Wing Leader was available, he/she would have been in top three!. Media Watch also hopes that this was not an attempt to foist Rahul Gandhi as a Youth Leader which failed due to lack of votes.
Also read a previous survey:
First point is regarding the question: Who are the best living role models in India. Sachin Tendulkar won hands worn with 19% vote and Rahul was no where near the top with less than 10% votes.
Second Question: How will you describe your political views? It was surprising to see moderate included as a political view. The youth survey pitted moderate against Right Wing and Left Wing?
It is surprising that HT/IBN has included moderate as a political view in the survey and pitted it against right wing and left wing! Is IBN/HT of view that Right Wing and Left Wing political views are not moderate thus extreme? Any student of statistics will tell HT/IBN that respondents in a survey if given a choice will invariably vote for the middle ground which is ‘Moderate’ in this case. Thus its not surprising that ‘Moderate’ option got largest votes. It is interesting to note that inspite of right wing being positioned as extreme view, it got overwhelming 30% votes. Media Watch hopes IBN/HT was not trying to pass of ‘congress ideology’ as Moderate.
Secondly, It is surprising that only two political leaders (Rahul and Sonia) were included in the survey which tried to identify “Best living role model for youth”. Dont IBN/HT think 30% of respondents who identified themselves as Right Wing may want to chose a leader from Right Wing? Media Watch is of opinion that If such an option of Right Wing Leader was available, he/she would have been in top three!. Media Watch also hopes that this was not an attempt to foist Rahul Gandhi as a Youth Leader which failed due to lack of votes.
Also read a previous survey:
There is a typo in the article. The Right Wing option got almost 30%, as opposed to the 20% mentioned in the article.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's just a slip of tongue ;-) May be the Congressy media will jump on it, if they find out about this typo and make this as authentic BREAKING NEWS !!! :D
Corrected thanks for pointing it out
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