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September 24, 2006
Crain's editor offers weak defense of poll
Atlantic Yards Report provides alternate ways the affordable housing question could have been phrased in the Crain's poll, such as "The project would include 2,250 affordable apartments, but more than half would be too expensive for people at Brooklyn's median income." AYR also speculates about the motives of the pollster:
David also offers two perhaps contradictory sentences regarding pollster Charney Research:
Mr. Charney, a professional pollster whose firm had emphasized political work, wanted to raise his company's profile within the business community and thought a joint project with Crain's might help... His company had no ties to developer Forest City Ratner or its opponents and no vested interest in the outcome, except to embellish its reputation for objective polling.So one way of raising the profile might be to produce a poll that businesses would appreciate.
I'm willing to believe that Charney did not slant the questions deliberately to favor the outcome achieved. It could have simply been ignorance. But ignorance is no excuse.
Posted by amy at September 24, 2006 7:34 PM