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Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job'
OverTheGeicoE writes "Why is it that airport security never seems to change in the United States? Perhaps it's because most Americans think the TSA is doing a 'good job,' according to a surprise Gallup poll, allegedly commissioned by no one but the kind editors at Gallup. The poll found that 54% of Americans believe the TSA is doing a good or excellent job, and that 57% have a good or excellent opinion of the agency. So why all the criticism? According to the article, criticism of the TSA comes primarily from 'Internet sites, where reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are taught to consider what is told to them with skepticism and to seek responses to charges.' Furthermore, 'the TSA is put into a difficult situation when such charges are posted with little or no fact checking by reporters.' Other sources, of course, have different interpretations of Gallup's results, including questions about whether the poll was biased. If Americans secretly do love the TSA, that could explain why the recent whitehouse.gov petition failed to gather enough signatures for a 'response.' In fact, you'll find so little information about the petition remains on whitehouse.gov that you'll wonder if my link is correct. And these are not the droids you're looking for. Move along."
Sample question from the TSA survey:
Do you think the TSA is:
a) Doing an excellent job
b) Doing a great job
c) The best thing EVAR!
d) The reason I hate America, children, and puppies.
Is it weird in here, or is it just me?
So you're saying TSA don't do a good job?
Then tell me how many buildings terrorists have flown airplanes into recently. Name one!
Pollsters always seem to be sampling or over sampling the wrong people.
They evidently polled AMTrak passengers for this one.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
'Internet sites, where reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are taught to consider what is told to them with skepticism and to seek responses to charges.'
I haven't laughed so hard in months. Thank you, PR lackey, for brightening my day.
Oh shit, Time Cube Guy's into computers now...
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Yesterday's article showed how it's done: Poll printed in Baskerville font!
Or vagina
How many terrorists has the TSA caught?
If the number is large, then your question is relevant. Otherwise they are the magic rock that keeps the tigers away.
Act now and with every tiger repelling Magic Rock, get a Magic Sling that Slays Giants!
But wait there's more!
Sign up within the next election year, and We'll throw in a 2000 year old instruction manual that also contains the secret to Eternal* Life!
*Additional restrictions apply, offer not valid in the states of New England, the West Coast, or Sanity.
Personally, I'd refuse to take a job that required air travel. No salary is worth that. I will flip burgers for a living before I step foot on a plane ever again. Not one penny of mine will ever go to the scum who run the airlines. I hope they all die in some sort of fiery explosion.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
...We'll throw in a 2000 year old instruction manual...
TL;DR I got the Cliff Notes
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Given that 48% of those surveyed *had not flown in the preceeding 12 months* and they only got a 54% positive response rate...
Therefore 6% of air travelers actually approve of the TSA. Personally I still think this is high so I arbitrarily apply a +/- 5% rule to lower that to 1%...and then can claim "as much as 99% of people think the TSA is the the root of all evil"
Ok? Ok! Wait...Crap why am I some list that says I can't fly ever again? >.>
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