Poll

To the question “who do you think is currently winning the war against terrorism- the U.S. and its allies, neither side, or the terrorists?” in 2001, 42% of the people asked, answered the U.S. and its allies, 11% the terrorists, and 44% neither side. However, in 2005, 37% answered the U.S., 20% the terrorists, and 42% neither side. In order to know if this survey is reliable or not, Dr. Sheldon Gawiser and G. Evans Witt, cofounders of the Associated Press/NBC News Poll, give us the formula to do so: 20 Questions which are going to determine if the survey is credible or not. The basic questions are about the making of the poll (who, when, why, what and how), the people who were asked and the way of how the poll was conducted. Regarding our poll, the methodology was conducted by Gallup Organization, which is a reliable source of information according to Fishkin in the following article (even though, he claims having a better one.) The findings of this survey aren’t so significant, besides that more people think that terrorists are winning. The fact of correlating those two polling (2001 –pre 9/11 and 2005- war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan) already makes us conclude that the terrorists are winning, and that U.S. is loosing. Or somebody could always argue that today people are more fearful of terrorists attack and because of that, would answer that they’re winning.