D3 Systems Screws Up Another Poll
Via Glenn, a lot of good news here, but still heavily slanted to Sunnis, who tend to be much more negative in their opinions of pretty much everything. The poll has 30% Sunni Arabs, while most estimates place them at about half that proportion.
This is not the first time D3 has done this.
I don’t know if D3 is deliberately pro-Sunni, or if it’s factors such as Shia/Kurd distrust of pollsters (answering surveys wrong could get you killed before 2003) or just a general propensity for Sunnis to be over-represented in areas that are polled (more urban, perhaps?), but in any case it’s egregiously inaccurate.
Anyways, do the corrections to bring them down to 15% and the numbers change in some interesting ways. Most Iraqis view the invasion as justified, and a very large percentage say their lives are going well.
I’ll try to post the actual corrected numbers soon.
UPDATE: Ed Morissey at HotAir has more, and graciously thanks your humble DW contributor for noting the issue.
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Where is you justification for Sunni’s being only 15% of the Iraqi population? That isn’t what I have seen in other places, 25-30%.
This CIA World factbook entry on Iraq has the Sunni population at 32-37%.
Dave Justus’s last blog post..Obama’s Pastor
A lot of those Sunnis are Kurds, not Arabs.
Dave Price mentioned “Sunni Arabs”
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