Statistics and polling

A colleague says that statistics comes down to two choices: doing something you shouldn't have done, or NOT doing something you SHOULD have done. It's that simple. SO, pollsters make up bad questions, ask them of people who don't think very carefully (if at all), and people respond.

I say "what you SHOULD do is NOT respond to poll questions."  First of all, our poll questions phrase things to satisfy their clients, NOT to ask us what we really think. They don't have the TIME to analyze what would be our responses to more open questions. Second, pollsters waste our time. I know, I know, we play games, go to movies, talk on the phone, but we CHOOSE to do those things. Do you CHOOSE to be a polling subject? I bet not.

Let's bring that industry to it's tailored knees. Don't respond to polls or polling questions. Make the politicians do their own work. (Assuming they know how to do any....)