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Bangkok. June 2014.
TV reporter makes a telecast in front of movie extras.
Free King Naresuan Movie Show Makes Thais Happy
The Nation
17th June 2014
BANGKOK - A survey by Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association found that 93.7 per cent of respondents were happy to have watched latest King Naresuan movie.
The survey was carried out on Sunday and Monday among 424 randomly picked people in Bangkok. The free show was provided by 160 theatres nationwide on Sunday.
Up to 98.2 per cent of the respondents said they were proud in the leadership of King Naresuan and 98.1 per cent said they were proud to be born Thais.
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Here's a link to a guidelines document, by the professional research watchdog ESOMAR, regarding "Opinion Polls and Democracy."
wapor.org/pdf/ESOMAR_Codes&Guidelines_OpinionPolling_...
Political Polls and Democracy
Public opinion is a critical force in shaping and transforming society. Properly conducted and disseminated survey research gives the general public an opportunity for its voice to be heard. Through opinion research the public, politicians, the media and other interested groups have access to accurate measures of public attitudes and intentions.
“Scientific” polling is among the most successful political developments of the last century. Public opinion polls help guide policy by giving decision-makers impartial information about what the public wants. Polls also alert the public to their own hopes, desires and political goals. They are mirrors, permitting individuals to understand where they fit into the political system. Media reports of the results of opinion polls tell readers and listeners that their opinions are important, and can even sometimes be more important than the opinions of the elite.
The democratic urge towards participation and the journalistic desire to ask questions have merged to create the extensive media polling of the last 70 years. Imagine a political system where the public is told what it thinks by its political leaders, where election winners have the ability to tell voters why they voted the way they did and where the government, when it looks for public input, asks only its friends what the public thinks. The alternative to properly conducted polls is a public and a government exposed only to unscientific and probably inaccurate assertions about what people believe, in many cases presented by partisan individuals or organizations with a political agenda.
ESOMAR is the global professional authority on research best practice.
It is not clear who are the Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association.
..."Imagine a political system where the public is told what it thinks by its political leaders, where election winners have the ability to tell voters why they voted the way they did and where the government, when it looks for public input, asks only its friends what the public thinks. The alternative to properly conducted polls is a public and a government exposed only to unscientific and probably inaccurate assertions about what people believe, in many cases presented by partisan individuals or organizations with a political agenda.
Bangkok. June 2014.
TV reporter makes a telecast in front of movie extras.
Free King Naresuan Movie Show Makes Thais Happy
The Nation
17th June 2014
BANGKOK - A survey by Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association found that 93.7 per cent of respondents were happy to have watched latest King Naresuan movie.
The survey was carried out on Sunday and Monday among 424 randomly picked people in Bangkok. The free show was provided by 160 theatres nationwide on Sunday.
Up to 98.2 per cent of the respondents said they were proud in the leadership of King Naresuan and 98.1 per cent said they were proud to be born Thais.
- - - - -
Here's a link to a guidelines document, by the professional research watchdog ESOMAR, regarding "Opinion Polls and Democracy."
wapor.org/pdf/ESOMAR_Codes&Guidelines_OpinionPolling_...
Political Polls and Democracy
Public opinion is a critical force in shaping and transforming society. Properly conducted and disseminated survey research gives the general public an opportunity for its voice to be heard. Through opinion research the public, politicians, the media and other interested groups have access to accurate measures of public attitudes and intentions.
“Scientific” polling is among the most successful political developments of the last century. Public opinion polls help guide policy by giving decision-makers impartial information about what the public wants. Polls also alert the public to their own hopes, desires and political goals. They are mirrors, permitting individuals to understand where they fit into the political system. Media reports of the results of opinion polls tell readers and listeners that their opinions are important, and can even sometimes be more important than the opinions of the elite.
The democratic urge towards participation and the journalistic desire to ask questions have merged to create the extensive media polling of the last 70 years. Imagine a political system where the public is told what it thinks by its political leaders, where election winners have the ability to tell voters why they voted the way they did and where the government, when it looks for public input, asks only its friends what the public thinks. The alternative to properly conducted polls is a public and a government exposed only to unscientific and probably inaccurate assertions about what people believe, in many cases presented by partisan individuals or organizations with a political agenda.
ESOMAR is the global professional authority on research best practice.
It is not clear who are the Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association.
..."Imagine a political system where the public is told what it thinks by its political leaders, where election winners have the ability to tell voters why they voted the way they did and where the government, when it looks for public input, asks only its friends what the public thinks. The alternative to properly conducted polls is a public and a government exposed only to unscientific and probably inaccurate assertions about what people believe, in many cases presented by partisan individuals or organizations with a political agenda.