http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_National_121715.pdf (Q38 on page 8 and Q6 on page 97)
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/12/trump-leads-grows-nationally-41-of-his-voters-want-to-bomb-country-from-aladdin-clinton-maintains-bi.html
[url=http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Agrabah]Agrabah[/url] is a fictional place from Aladdin.
Yeah…doesn’t speak well…
It is a whole new world…
and the CC cafe polls show that 100% CCers think that this thread will be shut down quickly. 
This poll result comes as absolutely no surprise. None.
When you have the leading presidential candidate for one of the two main political parties advocating for blanket discrimination against over a billion people, why should this come as a surprise?
What’s just as sickening is that within that same poll, less than half thought the Japanese internment camps were a bad idea. What?!
(Not that I should be surprised since a CCer excused the internment camps recently.)
Lol, BB.
I actually did recognize that as the fictional country in Aladdin, but if you’d asked the name of it, I probably couldn’t have told you.
The interesting part about the poll was how many Republicans weren’t sure whether to bomb Agrabah: over 50%. Sounds like most people heard the question and weren’t sure whether “Agrabah” was an ISIS stronghold, or something else. So good for them.
Almost 20% of self-identified Democrats also wanted to bomb Agrabah.
It truly is the “Know Nothings” with these low-information voters. Not surprised given the low-information content of right wing news and entertainment sources.
Nrdsb - we had a huge princess Jasmine fan in our house.
It was not clear if the poll said Agrabah was a country or a city as presented in the question… If the choices were “yes”, “no”, and “not sure,” how would an Aladdin fan answer? There probably was no box to check “you morons, it is a Disney fiction!”
Perhaps in addition to doing calligraphy exercises in geography we need to add a coloring exercise of a dawing depicting Agrabah?
This is being picked up by the foreign media big time!!! I expect a flurry of nasty propaganda spam in my junk mailbox… Sigh.
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Ok, according to other links Agrabah in that poll was “a country.” Sigh.
Ubekibekibekistan, anyone?
It was a joke poll to begin with:
http://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/
Previous polls asked to rank Putin, Congress, and dog poop in order of their popularity, for example. Lol
Bu nonetheless the result is sad…
Lol, sounds like the same old world to me… 8-|
Is Agrabah east or west of Elbonia?
It’s discouraging. But it was also a set up:
The question was fairly straightforward: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” (Agrabah is, of course, not a real country.)
But it came after a long series of questions about things that have actually been in the news, such as criminal background checks of gun buyers, barring Muslims from entering the U.S. and raising the federal minimum wage.
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It’s called “priming”. Basically it’s a way to manipulate brains, and any neuroscientist would know that the juxtaposition of a trick question with the other mundane, real questions, would tend to increase the rate of error. And by “long series” that means it is question #38 out of a set of 41 questions – so a certain amount of exhaustion sets in as well. I think that this tells us more about flaws and biases inherent in polling methodology than in what people who are polled think.
It was also an automated poll which makes thinks even worse. The problem with an automated poll is that there is no opportunity for other feedback beyond whatever options are offered in the poll-- that is, if it is a phone call, the person who is willing to pick up the phone and spend 15 minutes answering inane robo-questions, doesn’t have an opportunity to ask for the question to be repeated. The priming from questions 32-37 is strong enough that a large segment of respondents never hear beyond “Do you support bombing” - they already know which side they are on from the series of Islamaphobic questions that preceded it.
The more troubling issues are the answers to the real questions that preceded the fake one. They’ve got 46% of respondents supporting a national database of Muslims in the US.
As to the fake question, by comparison to the others, there is a huge jump in “I’m not sure” responses – which probably reflects the large number of respondents who did think, “Agrabah? what’s that” despite the priming.
Interesting tactic as a PR technique for the polling company. Would they have gotten as much publicity about the poll without the trick question?
Doubt it. Maybe it was a poll with a purpose, as many of them tend to be.
Good post, though it’ll likely let the air out of a few tires.
Maybe these the same Yale students that signed the petition to repeal the first amendment.