A Nuclear for Australia poll is getting some publicity but the design has a couple of leading Qs that make it more likely respondent will favour nuclear power. #pollshapedobject
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November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A Nuclear for Australia poll is getting some publicity but the design has a couple of leading Qs that make it more likely respondent will favour nuclear power. #pollshapedobject
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What can be said of this is that if - as it sounds like - the poll asked voters a question about the impact of a single issue on their vote in isolation then it is likely to be worthless anyway. #pollshapedobject
December 1, 2024 at 10:37 AM
What can be said of this is that if - as it sounds like - the poll asked voters a question about the impact of a single issue on their vote in isolation then it is likely to be worthless anyway. #pollshapedobject
Poll attributed to Sodali and Co, a "stakeholder capital" firm that doesn't advertise general polling as a service. Details lacking include dates, question wording, poll method, full list of seats, full primaries #pollshapedobject
thewest.com.au/politics/sta...
thewest.com.au/politics/sta...
‘Catastrophic’: Liberal SOS predicts whitewash under Mettam
Liberal Leader Libby Mettam has been put on notice by ‘catastrophic’ polling that warns the party is on the edge of a new record election disaster, unless she hands over the reins.
thewest.com.au
November 25, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Poll attributed to Sodali and Co, a "stakeholder capital" firm that doesn't advertise general polling as a service. Details lacking include dates, question wording, poll method, full list of seats, full primaries #pollshapedobject
thewest.com.au/politics/sta...
thewest.com.au/politics/sta...
Large Voice #pollshapedobject on the loose in the form of news com au "Great Aussie Debate" survey. Yes it has a "sample" size of 50,000 - it's still an opt-in reader poll and as such skewed and worthless. Also taken in July.
September 19, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Large Voice #pollshapedobject on the loose in the form of news com au "Great Aussie Debate" survey. Yes it has a "sample" size of 50,000 - it's still an opt-in reader poll and as such skewed and worthless. Also taken in July.
@kevinbonham.bsky.social I see your #pollshapedobject and raise you a new #statshapedobject: "Mr Abet... said Tasmania had the highest number of 'legislative restrictions' in Australia on a per capita basis at 74 per 1000 people." #politas
March 11, 2025 at 2:29 AM
@kevinbonham.bsky.social I see your #pollshapedobject and raise you a new #statshapedobject: "Mr Abet... said Tasmania had the highest number of 'legislative restrictions' in Australia on a per capita basis at 74 per 1000 people." #politas
#pollshapedobject RK Crosby, source of past inaccurate efforts like KORE and Voter Choice, has a sample supposed to find over 50% of New England voters want a Labor government !?!??
(But refuses to publish voting intention)
www.netimes.com.au/2025/03/19/e...
(But refuses to publish voting intention)
www.netimes.com.au/2025/03/19/e...
Engage Poll: Is New England ready to dump the Nationals?
New England is National Party heartland, but the results of the latest New England Times Engage Poll indicate this love affair may be at risk of ending.
www.netimes.com.au
March 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
#pollshapedobject RK Crosby, source of past inaccurate efforts like KORE and Voter Choice, has a sample supposed to find over 50% of New England voters want a Labor government !?!??
(But refuses to publish voting intention)
www.netimes.com.au/2025/03/19/e...
(But refuses to publish voting intention)
www.netimes.com.au/2025/03/19/e...
#pollshapedobject RED ALERT COMEDY SECTION 🚨🚨🚨
The Australian has for some reason seen fit to report as news that Compass Polling claims to have Matt Camenzuli on 41% in McMahon and Chris Bowen on 19% (Libs 20%)
The Australian has for some reason seen fit to report as news that Compass Polling claims to have Matt Camenzuli on 41% in McMahon and Chris Bowen on 19% (Libs 20%)
April 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
#pollshapedobject RED ALERT COMEDY SECTION 🚨🚨🚨
The Australian has for some reason seen fit to report as news that Compass Polling claims to have Matt Camenzuli on 41% in McMahon and Chris Bowen on 19% (Libs 20%)
The Australian has for some reason seen fit to report as news that Compass Polling claims to have Matt Camenzuli on 41% in McMahon and Chris Bowen on 19% (Libs 20%)
#pollshapedobject alert - the Australian Population Research Institute is again claiming to have conducted a poll - these are very long surveys awash with leading or defective wordings, disregard.
February 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
#pollshapedobject alert - the Australian Population Research Institute is again claiming to have conducted a poll - these are very long surveys awash with leading or defective wordings, disregard.
#pollshapedobject IPA Dynata - flagburning
* unreliable poll platform
* insufficient documentation to determine if questions had preceding material
* insufficient methods details
* unreliable poll platform
* insufficient documentation to determine if questions had preceding material
* insufficient methods details
August 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#pollshapedobject IPA Dynata - flagburning
* unreliable poll platform
* insufficient documentation to determine if questions had preceding material
* insufficient methods details
* unreliable poll platform
* insufficient documentation to determine if questions had preceding material
* insufficient methods details
Cannot find anything regarding exact question wordings or poll methods, company not noted for polling and commissioning source is a lobby group so this is ticking a lot of boxes for being a #pollshapedobject
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
December 6, 2023 at 4:21 AM
Cannot find anything regarding exact question wordings or poll methods, company not noted for polling and commissioning source is a lobby group so this is ticking a lot of boxes for being a #pollshapedobject
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
@kevinbonham.bsky.social any thoughts on the poll published by 'Stats&Data' (I'd never heard of them, and it doesn't look like they've polled here before)
L-NP 36.1%, ALP 29.3%, Green 13.8%, ON 8.8%, OTH 11.9%
2PP 50.5 - 49.5 L-NP.
Is this a #pollshapedobject?
statsanddataglobal.com/au25
L-NP 36.1%, ALP 29.3%, Green 13.8%, ON 8.8%, OTH 11.9%
2PP 50.5 - 49.5 L-NP.
Is this a #pollshapedobject?
statsanddataglobal.com/au25
Stats&DataAU
At Stats&Data, we specialize in conducting surveys and analyses. We are the best Pollster of 2024 US Election and one of the most accurate in 2024 UK Election
statsanddataglobal.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
@kevinbonham.bsky.social any thoughts on the poll published by 'Stats&Data' (I'd never heard of them, and it doesn't look like they've polled here before)
L-NP 36.1%, ALP 29.3%, Green 13.8%, ON 8.8%, OTH 11.9%
2PP 50.5 - 49.5 L-NP.
Is this a #pollshapedobject?
statsanddataglobal.com/au25
L-NP 36.1%, ALP 29.3%, Green 13.8%, ON 8.8%, OTH 11.9%
2PP 50.5 - 49.5 L-NP.
Is this a #pollshapedobject?
statsanddataglobal.com/au25
#pollshapedobject (so many of them at the moment). IPA questions here obviously leading respondents to agree with them about government spending, blatantly slanted design, disregard.
ipa.org.au/publications...
ipa.org.au/publications...
March 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#pollshapedobject (so many of them at the moment). IPA questions here obviously leading respondents to agree with them about government spending, blatantly slanted design, disregard.
ipa.org.au/publications...
ipa.org.au/publications...
Report re "Intelligent Dialogue" suspected actual push-poll targeting teals, now detected in Goldstein as well as Wentworth
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#pollshapedobject
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#pollshapedobject
Teal MPs decry anonymous ‘push poll’ sent to voters in two independent seats
Transparency advocates raise concerns over ‘survey’ that asked loaded questions about Climate 200-backed MPs Zoe Daniel and Allegra Spender
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Report re "Intelligent Dialogue" suspected actual push-poll targeting teals, now detected in Goldstein as well as Wentworth
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#pollshapedobject
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#pollshapedobject
#pollshapedobject seen - IPA/Dynata Welcome to Country
- negatively framed questions
- acquiescence bias
- tunnel of agreement a la "Leading Questions" skit
- unreliable pollster
ignore.
- negatively framed questions
- acquiescence bias
- tunnel of agreement a la "Leading Questions" skit
- unreliable pollster
ignore.
July 1, 2025 at 12:22 AM
#pollshapedobject seen - IPA/Dynata Welcome to Country
- negatively framed questions
- acquiescence bias
- tunnel of agreement a la "Leading Questions" skit
- unreliable pollster
ignore.
- negatively framed questions
- acquiescence bias
- tunnel of agreement a la "Leading Questions" skit
- unreliable pollster
ignore.
@kevinbonham.bsky.social a #pollshapedobject for you, SMS poll today.
very weirdly for me for Moreton, as I'm in in the IW of sydney and haven't been in Brisbane except as a small child and only once
very weirdly for me for Moreton, as I'm in in the IW of sydney and haven't been in Brisbane except as a small child and only once
March 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
@kevinbonham.bsky.social a #pollshapedobject for you, SMS poll today.
very weirdly for me for Moreton, as I'm in in the IW of sydney and haven't been in Brisbane except as a small child and only once
very weirdly for me for Moreton, as I'm in in the IW of sydney and haven't been in Brisbane except as a small child and only once
#pollshapedobject special connoisseurs edition: It's a Trumpet of Patriots Telereach poll about whether Australians like Trump!
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February 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
#pollshapedobject special connoisseurs edition: It's a Trumpet of Patriots Telereach poll about whether Australians like Trump!
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trumpetofpatriots.org/wp-content/u...
Just like the Daily Telegraph doing their own #pollshapedobject on who won the first leader's debate after the in-person audience threw up a response they didn't like.
April 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Just like the Daily Telegraph doing their own #pollshapedobject on who won the first leader's debate after the in-person audience threw up a response they didn't like.
The category for these things is #pollshapedobject .
March 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The category for these things is #pollshapedobject .
Seeing several right-wingers circulating "results" of a news.com.au #pollshapedobject on Welcome to Country. This is simply an opt-in of people who voted on said website - readers skew massively right + opt-ins are prone to brigading and manipulation.
April 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Seeing several right-wingers circulating "results" of a news.com.au #pollshapedobject on Welcome to Country. This is simply an opt-in of people who voted on said website - readers skew massively right + opt-ins are prone to brigading and manipulation.
This is a #pollshapedobject. It's funded by Advance, the pollster's only previous public polls were inaccurate and the preference flows are implausibly weak for those seats.
March 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is a #pollshapedobject. It's funded by Advance, the pollster's only previous public polls were inaccurate and the preference flows are implausibly weak for those seats.
I saw the author's name, anything by her is automatically a #pollshapedobject
March 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I saw the author's name, anything by her is automatically a #pollshapedobject
Cluedo #pollshapedobject game - the victim is Winter, location is Franklin, the weapon is a primitively weighted robopoll with no public track record to speak of. But who was holding the weapon? #politas pulsetasmania.com.au/news/frankli...
Franklin voters back David O’Byrne as best Labor leader ahead of Dean Winter
A poll suggests he is more popular than Dean Winter among southern voters…
pulsetasmania.com.au
July 16, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Cluedo #pollshapedobject game - the victim is Winter, location is Franklin, the weapon is a primitively weighted robopoll with no public track record to speak of. But who was holding the weapon? #politas pulsetasmania.com.au/news/frankli...
Another day another #pollshapedobject in the Tele - this time it's nuclear energy in Sydney ALP and teal seats
* Commissioned by NSW Minerals Council
* Pollster not named
* Full report not available
* Skewed question design
* Commissioned by NSW Minerals Council
* Pollster not named
* Full report not available
* Skewed question design
January 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Another day another #pollshapedobject in the Tele - this time it's nuclear energy in Sydney ALP and teal seats
* Commissioned by NSW Minerals Council
* Pollster not named
* Full report not available
* Skewed question design
* Commissioned by NSW Minerals Council
* Pollster not named
* Full report not available
* Skewed question design
Excellent Media Watch episode re Compass poll of McMahon shows that Matt Camenzuli's name was prechecked for SMS response though supposedly respondents had to recheck it for response to be counted. Absolutely bizarre survey method. #pollshapedobject
www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
April 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Excellent Media Watch episode re Compass poll of McMahon shows that Matt Camenzuli's name was prechecked for SMS response though supposedly respondents had to recheck it for response to be counted. Absolutely bizarre survey method. #pollshapedobject
www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...
@kevinbonham.bsky.social is this a #pollshapedobject? Why are pollsters still including JLN? #auspol #politas #ausvotes
Labor edges ahead of Liberals in Lyons as poll shows neck-and-neck race
The final result could mirror the razor-thin margin from 2022…
pulsetasmania.com.au
April 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
@kevinbonham.bsky.social is this a #pollshapedobject? Why are pollsters still including JLN? #auspol #politas #ausvotes