If you can't beat 'em...

[owlmoose]

Some of you may have heard about the Dove Foundation (no relationship to the soap), a "family friendly" entertainment crusading group. Their robot dialers call you and try to entice you into taking a "survey" about the "evils of Hollywood" and so on. Apparently they get around the No Call List by claiming to be a charity, although they don't meet the Better Business Bureau's standards. The Missouri Attorney General is suing the organization, but in the meantime there's no way you can stop them from calling.

On their website, they claim that over 94% of the people who respond to the survey agree with the assertion that the quality of movies and television is dropping. But people report that they also hang up on anyone who starts to disagree with them. Talk about skewing the sample. But two can play that game. There's also a link to the survey on their website.

http://www.dove.org/opinionpoll_takeit.asp

What do you think? Shall we flood them with responses from godless liberals?

Comments

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Interesting to know that the survey might not actually submit. Given the phone polling practices, I wouldn't be that surprised if the online poll is a fake. They're not interested in attracting real numbers, just in making their position look stronger and more popular than it likely really is.

[rabbitprint.livejournal.com]

I'm more interested in the other information they have in their poll -- the form has 'form method="POST" action="survey_post.asp"' which seems accurate, but it also submits further down: 'input type="hidden" name="Online" value="Y"' and 'input type="hidden" name="CT" value="1"'. The POST function is accurate enough, but if you look at the code on their 'results' page, it's not dynamically updated, judging from how the style tags are getting wrapped around the text block.

So they're getting results, they just aren't reporting them accurately, and they're bothering to record something else too which is odd.