You may have seen the brouhaha over the racist South Carolina exit poll. More background: >> ...However, it turns out that the poll was worded this way on purpose. Researchers took the questions, word for word, from the Modern Racism Scale — a psychological test developed in 1986 that can be used to determine an individuals inherent discriminations. The political science researchers who conducted the poll say they administer this type of study often, and they were surprised at the anger to their questions in this latest round... “We do this every day. We didnt think too much about it until we got it out in the field and saw that there was some reaction,” said David Woodard, a political science professor at Clemson University, in an interview with Spartanburg news site WSPA. “You had liberals getting offended. You had conservatives getting offended. It was all over the place,” added Paul White Jr., a doctoral candidate in political science from University of South Carolina. “It was designed to take advantage of a political moment of Senator Tim Scotts election as the first African-American from a southern state since reconstruction,” Woodard explained. “It was not designed to be provocative.”
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 00:35:20 +0000
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