Here is the poll for same sex marriage, I got my information from ABC News.
Does racism still exist? This information is from The Times.
What are your thoughts on Abortions? Information from CBS News
In looking at the polls you can see a lot about ProgressiveU users compared to the world. I though that this was very interesting and I hope you do too. Please add any polls you come across that are relevant to this.
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I am sorry I am having trouble getting the graphs I made to show up on the blog, they are all in the word document that I attached though. If you know how to get graphs to show up on blogs please let me know how.
I would not say this is demonstrative of the ProgressiveU population though.
Voluntarily polls that also do not select its sample randomly are plagued to be skewed for both of those reasons. It is wise to always scrutinize polls. Different factors can skew the true proportions significantly. Voluntarily polls have skewing problems. And a non-random selection of participants also has skewing problems.
For example, one reason why the ProgressiveU population may appear to be less pro-abortion is because the minority anti-choice people are more likely to respond to a poll on the issue than the majority pro-abortion people on a progressive site.
The framing of the questions can drastically change results among the same population and make it look more pro-abortion or more anti-choice than it really is.
I think every person should take a basic statistics class so that they can make intelligent discernings about polls in the news or at sites.
It is an interesting idea that you did what you did either way.
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It was the only information I had availible to me that attempted to show ProgressiveU users views. I also believe that these poll are probably not completely accurate but they do give a picture.
the stats are:
Same sex marriage
world: 45% for and 55% against
ProgressiveU: 57% for and 39% against
Does racism exist:
World:52% yes and 42% no
ProgressiveU:82% yes and 11% no
Abortions:
World:78% Pro-Choice and 22% Pro-Life
ProgressiveU:58% Pro-Choice and 30% Pro-Life
We are progressive except in Abortion. That is weird.
Peace!
Thats what I thought also.
I would have thought we would have been more pro-choice.
Thank you.
Yes so would I.