Why are some opinion poll results so positive about the Thai junta?
Saksith Saiyasombut
Saksith Saiyasombut blogs extensively about Thai politics and current affairs since 2010 and works as an international freelance broadcast journalist. Read his full bio on about.me/saksith.
Sep 24, 2014
A Thai soldier stands guard in front of the Democracy Monument in Bangkok after the military seized power on May 22.
Pic: AP.ongoing repression of dissentwe highlighted the flawed fallacy of taking opinion poll results as a serious indicator of the mood
According to one pollster, a number of respondents refused to be interviewed when asked about their political views
As a result, the respondents are dominated by either yellow-shirt supporters or people who are politically neutral, said the source, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the press.
Mainstream polls have provided glowing praise of the performance of the National Council for Peace and Order since it seized power on May 22, amid orders curbing freedom of expression of the media and anti-coup protesters.
Besides the likely skewed results by the established opinion poll institutes like ABAC, Bangkok University and Suan Dusit (whose results and methods have been also often criticized in the past), a new organization is raising suspicion with findings such as this:
Up to 95 per cent of the public support junta chief and PM-elect Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha as the prime minister, the Master Poll survey has found. The survey was carried out by Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association among leaders of 622 communities around the country on Friday and Saturday.
Prayuth receives public overwhelming support as PM: survey
According to his profiles on Twitter and LinkedInmasterpoll.netLinkedIn page lists
Saksith Saiyasombut
Saksith Saiyasombut blogs extensively about Thai politics and current affairs since 2010 and works as an international freelance broadcast journalist. Read his full bio on about.me/saksith.
Sep 24, 2014
A Thai soldier stands guard in front of the Democracy Monument in Bangkok after the military seized power on May 22.
Pic: AP.ongoing repression of dissentwe highlighted the flawed fallacy of taking opinion poll results as a serious indicator of the mood
According to one pollster, a number of respondents refused to be interviewed when asked about their political views
As a result, the respondents are dominated by either yellow-shirt supporters or people who are politically neutral, said the source, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the press.
Mainstream polls have provided glowing praise of the performance of the National Council for Peace and Order since it seized power on May 22, amid orders curbing freedom of expression of the media and anti-coup protesters.
Besides the likely skewed results by the established opinion poll institutes like ABAC, Bangkok University and Suan Dusit (whose results and methods have been also often criticized in the past), a new organization is raising suspicion with findings such as this:
Up to 95 per cent of the public support junta chief and PM-elect Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha as the prime minister, the Master Poll survey has found. The survey was carried out by Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association among leaders of 622 communities around the country on Friday and Saturday.
Prayuth receives public overwhelming support as PM: survey
The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has gained increased popularity since it seized power in May with latest poll by the Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association .
Thai Researchers in Community Happiness Association (TRICHA), which emerged very shortly after the military coup on May 22, 2014. Its first poll on June 14about the weekly Friday evening TV address by outgoing army chief, junta leader and Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha (90 per cent are watching it regularly! 95 per cent like it!) or asking a diminutive sample size of 424 moviegoers if they liked the junta-organized screenings of the of the fifth installment of the nationalistic, dramatized biopic series of the 16th-century King Naresuan93.7 per cent of thema messageunnamedwhose profile on the website is emptymasterpoll.net and tricha.nethere). According to his bioresearch advisor to the commander-in-chief in the past.According to his profiles on Twitter and LinkedInmasterpoll.netLinkedIn page lists
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