In response to Ellen's blog entry where she wants the Truth, I responded:
Truth, is there really a truth. I think the more important aspect is finding out the methods. If we try to find truths, then we are asking wrong questions, truths are abstracts notions, but to find out the methods-which is evidential, then we have unlocked the process and determine from these facts how objective (or -true, if thats what you want to call it)the poll/data is.
I completely agreed with Bethany's blog. She's talking about how important it is to understand the process-not just the end results, which is very similar to my blog.
In response to Jackie's blog I wrote:
it isn't the source of the polls that you have to be tentative of, it's the process of the polls, and the means to which they go to get the info. Not all polls are bad/wrong/slanted. The idea I guess is to not give them sacred reverence. They do not mean more then they mean-I think this is the area people fall over themselves a bit, I mean they see numbers and that there in itself is the end all of all conversations-it is not. The process(how) is as important as the (why)which both have more weight (I think at least) than the results(end).
These were my responses to some of my peers blogs for chapters 5-6 in the IANS