h a l f b a k e r yYeah, I wish it made more sense too.
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Take a wide screen TV, overlay with a touch screen and put a simulation of the whack-a-mole game on the screen. To get an opinion about a politician you replace the mole with the visage of the politician and let people wale away. The touch screen can be used to measure speed, accuracy and force.
Now
instead of a simple acceptance rating from a yes/no inquiry that always has problems with people lying, you get data from their unconscious change of effort with the change of visage. Apply single case experimental design to get a baseline and follow-up using the mole visage just to make the poll valid.
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"Honey, why are there bullet holes in the TV?"
"George Bush was giving a press conference". |
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But wouldn't people's opinions about politicians be influenced by the way they look? Oh yes.... |
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I'm claiming disenfranchisement of us sedentary types who just give 'em the finger |
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Largely baked by media researchers.
During the Presidential campaigns (and probably afterwards), 'Turd Blossom' Karl Rove conducted polls of how negative or positive a buzzward would be by having a group of people react to its emotions by turning an adjustable dial up or down. This is how we got names like 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' and such names. |
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Oh, I thought that was just some cynical army planner with his tongue in his cheek. |
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Some Polish guy hopped off his mate's Irish motorcycle and came up to the house the other day, smelling of avocados. That was the Guacamole O'pillion Pole. |
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For you, [lurch], we have the Yoyo Remote. |
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And for you [Consul] we have a comedy penitentiary. |
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Pollster returns to his office disheveled and bloody.
Manager: What happened to you, you were due back hours ago.
Pollster: After we set up and people discovered who we were polling they started lining up down the street to whack him. When we tried to shut down they almost rioted.
Manager: Is that why you are bloody, they rioted.
Pollster: No, I sent Jane to stand at the end of the line and tell people we were shutting down. But people that had played just kept getting back in line.
Manager: I don't understand.
Pollster: Well we did have an incident with a guy that wanted to use a real hammer but we convinced him he wouldn't be fast enough with the extra weight.
Manager: And he hit you.
Pollster: No the problems started when the black helicopters showed up. First they started playing the national anthem, then they started shooting at anyone that wasn't saluting.
Manager: Ah, the patriot police. I guess we will have a news story tonight about a "terrorist attack".
Pollster: Yes, He who controls the press, controls the lies. Some day they are going to get caught with their pants down.
Manager: They already have, but you have to go to the press outside this country to find the truth. |
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As much as this contributes nothing to the conversation, I misread this as "Whack a Mole Abortion Pill." There was no way I wasn't gonna read THAT. |
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