In a poll on AOL, 53% of respondents thought it was acceptable to treat their ch

Question:

In a poll on AOL, 53% of respondents thought it was acceptable to treat their children in a manner described?

in Alec Baldwin's leaked phone message. I'm shocked!
What do you think?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

All AOL polls are meaningless; they're conducted not to create real knowledge, but to generate attention-getting news. Only trust polls that are designed by people experienced in survey research (wording the question one way or the other can bias the response), and only when they've taken a scientifically valid, reliable sample of the population. Even those are wrong maybe 5% of the time, though.