Das Geheimnis hinter Yoons angeblicher Zustimmungsrate von 40 %? Leitfragen in voreingenommener Umfrage

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> Lee Joon-ho, the CEO of polling firm STI, noted, “The average person would, after being exposed to three extremely biased questions in a row, end the call and refuse to complete the survey. It’s likely that only those who agreed with such sentiments stayed on the line to answer the remaining questions.”

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> A review shows that 58% of the polls (14 out of the 24) conducted by KOPRA Lab from 2022 to 2023 were commissioned by Ko Sung-kook TV, a YouTuber who has publicly defended Yoon’s declaration of martial law.

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> Commissioning surveys with leading questions, then reporting their biased results to rally the base and paint a distorted picture of overall public opinion is the classic kind of opinion-manipulation tactic used by the political broker Myung Tae-kyun. On Monday, media outlets ran their own articles on the poll from the Asia Today article — titled “Yoon Suk-yeol’s approval rating hits 40%” — without verifying the facts themselves. As articles began to circulate among far-right YouTubers, around 40 People Power Party lawmakers fired up by the news even gathered outside the presidential residence in Seoul.
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> “Public opinion manipulation is evolving,” said Shin Jin-wook, a professor of sociology at Chung-Ang University. “It used to be that there was blatant manipulation of polling samples, but now data is being cleverly spun so that that they can say there was no intention of skewing findings.”
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> “If we don’t break up this opinion-manipulation network that starts with a polling agency and works its way through the media and the political sphere until finally rallying the public, we’re only going to see more of this kind of distortion in politics,” Shin said.