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[Fresh Legs]

Folks, I have taken the time to compile the results of all districts based on the numbers given to me.  For any auditors out there, you may find a few errors based on rounding.  (Should be a skew of no more than 1/4 of a percentage point.) 

Among avid fans, they show a 40% approval rating of White/Broyles and 61.75% approval rating of Nutt. 
Among the occasional fans, they show a 36.25% approval rating of White/Broyles and 68.75% approval rating of Nutt.
There are other things I'm sure you'll be happy to analyze.

BTW, you jokers can pay me my $20 bucks later.



Combined Poll Results            
1.  How often do you watch on TV, listen or attend Razorback football games?            
85.5      Avid Fan   14.5      Occasional Fan   
            
2.  What is your primary source of Razorback football information?            
81.75      Avid Fan   82      Occasional Fan   a.  Television
2.5      Avid Fan   4.75      Occasional Fan   b.  Radio
9.75      Avid Fan   4.75      Occasional Fan   c.  Newspaper
3.25      Avid Fan   0      Occasional Fan   d.  Internet
1.5      Avid Fan   2.25      Occasional Fan   e.  Family and friends
1.5      Avid Fan   7.25      Occasional Fan      f. (all not read)
            
3.  What is your secondary source of information?            
6.5      Avid Fan   7      Occasional Fan   a.  Television
34      Avid Fan   18      Occasional Fan   b.  Radio
25.25      Avid Fan   53.75      Occasional Fan   c.  Newspaper
18.25      Avid Fan   7.75      Occasional Fan   d.  Internet
7.25      Avid Fan   9.75      Occasional Fan   e.  Family and friends
8.75      Avid Fan   3.75      Occasional Fan   f. (all not read)
            
4.  How many people do you speak with about Razorback sports on a regular basis?            
7.75      Avid Fan   5.1      Occasional Fan   People
            
5.  When speaking before a group in Texas earlier this year Frank Broyles said that the Arkansas football team only has the potential to be the 7th best program in the SEC.  Do you agree with that statement or do you think the football program can do better?            
6.25      Avid Fan   11.5      Occasional Fan   Agree
81      Avid Fan   74.5      Occasional Fan   Can Do Better
12.5      Avid Fan   14      Occasional Fan   No Opinion
            
6.  Are you aware of the controversial emails sent by booster Teresa Prewett to Mitch Mustain and Wally Hall?            
70.75      Avid Fan   60      Occasional Fan   Yes
29.25      Avid Fan   40      Occasional Fan   No
            
( if "yes",  ask 6b)            
            
6b.  How much do you know about those emails?            
42      Avid Fan   44.25      Occasional Fan   Read Emails
57.75      Avid Fan   55.75      Occasional Fan   Heard/Not Read
            
            
            
7. Do you believe Chancellor White should have done a better job investigating questionable behavior by the football coaching staff concerning the controversial emails?                
38.75      Avid Fan   27      Occasional Fan   Yes
18.25      Avid Fan   13      Occasional Fan   No
43      Avid Fan   60.5      Occasional Fan   No Opinion
            
8.  I am sure you are aware there has been a lawsuit filed about the way the University handled the email controversy. The Judge has dismissed 2 counts and there are still 2 counts pending.  Do you think the court should order an investigation?             
24.25      Avid Fan   12.75      Occasional Fan   Yes, order an investigation
39      Avid Fan   40.75      Occasional Fan   (no investigation.)
36.75      Avid Fan   46.25      Occasional Fan   No Opinion
            
9.  How satisfied are you with the leadership of Frank Broyles and Chancellor White concerning men’s athletics?   
12.75      Avid Fan   9.25      Occasional Fan   a.  Very Satisfied
27.25      Avid Fan   27      Occasional Fan   b.  Somewhat satisfied
18.25      Avid Fan   22.25      Occasional Fan   c.  Somewhat dissatisfied
16.25      Avid Fan   8.5      Occasional Fan   d.  Very dissatisfied
25.75      Avid Fan   33.5      Occasional Fan   e.  No opinion (do not read)
            
10.  How satisfied are you with the current University of Arkansas football coach?            
22.75      Avid Fan   28      Occasional Fan   a.  Very Satisfied
39      Avid Fan   40.75      Occasional Fan   b.  Somewhat satisfied
14      Avid Fan   8.25      Occasional Fan   c.  Somewhat dissatisfied
16.5      Avid Fan   8.25      Occasional Fan   d.  Very dissatisfied
7.75      Avid Fan   15.25      Occasional Fan   e.  No opinion (do not read)
            
11.  How many of those people you talk with about Razorback sports on a regular basis share your opinion of the coach?         
87.25      Avid Fan   73.75      Occasional Fan   Share Opinion
            
12. Do you believe the new basketball coach can make the Razorbacks contenders for a National Championship?           
62.75      Avid Fan   48      Occasional Fan   Yes
10      Avid Fan   13.5      Occasional Fan   No
27.25      Avid Fan   38.75      Occasional Fan   (No opinion/not sure)

[Hong Kong Sooey]

Thanks for the hard work brutha.

The check is in the mail...

[HogISH]

40% for broyles/white.... that shocks me more than anything else...

in normal times you can ask 600 hog fans and 75% would not know who white was...

HogISH

[killthefattedcalf]

ARKANSAS CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS (click to enlarge)


**probably unnecessary since this is combined, but it provides a little background if someone references district-specific numbers

LINK: http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/congdist/pagecgd109_ar2.pdf

[razornole]

thanks killer I'm sure someone on drive by will not know what is where

[Bpig]

40% for broyles/white.... that shocks me more than anything else...

in normal times you can ask 600 hog fans and 75% would not know who white was...

HogISH

75% still might not but they all know who Frank is. I wish they had not coupled those two.

[NateHogg216]

thanks for the breakdown fresh.   See ya come september

[manofadventure901]

  <<< For a certain group of 50 protestors...

Assuming these are the actual questions, I think some of the wording of the questions is VERY interesting. In fact, they are worded such that they bias the answers.

Examples:

Question #5: "When speaking before a group in Texas earlier this year Frank Broyles said that the Arkansas football team only has the potential to be the 7th best program in the SEC. Do you agree with that statement or do you think the football program can do better?"

First of all, the first statement BIASES the question that follows. Second, the question that follows is FAULTY because it really asks something different than what the first statement said. THIRD, what Frank Broyles was referring to was POTENTIAL, not expectations, but the use of the word ONLY leads one to believe that Frank Broyles was suggesting that this is the best Arkansas can do. What he actually talked about was where Arkansas DOES RANK based on POTENTIAL. The fact is Arkansas has consistenly performed ABOVE potential, and this is a good thing. Consistent performance ABOVE POTENTIAL means the program OVERPERFORMS. Please tell me that's not a bad thing. I think it's great! The question then asks the pollee if he or she agrees with Broyles supposed statement or thinks the football program can do better. The pollee is being asked to agree or disagree with a statement Frank Broyles made about POTENTIAL. Nobody can DENY that Arkansas' POTENTIAL based on recruiting base/market, program funding, etc. is 7th. That's a FACT, so asking somebody to agree or disagree on this is STUPID and BIASES the REAL question the pollster wants us to believe is being asked, which is "Don't you think Arkansas can do better?" The OBVIOUS answer is YES, and the FACTS bear out that Arkansas HAS done better. This question alone makes this a GARBAGE POLL.

Question #6: "Are you aware of the controversial emails sent by booster Teresa Prewitt to Mitch Mustain and Wally Hall?" With the use of the word "controversial", the pollsters use this question to bias questions that follow it. Of course the emails were controversial, but there was no reason to actually USE the word "controversial". To UNBIAS the poll, this word should have been left out so that the pollee could make up his or her own mind about whether or not the emails were controversial or wrong.

Question #7: "Do you believe Chancellor White should have done a better job investigating questionable behavior by the football staff concerning the controversial emails?" Again, word choice is important so as not to bias a poll. Calling the football staff's behavior "questionable" and again using the word "controversial" only serves to point to pollee in ONE direction. These words, by nature, are negative in context, leading one torward a negative response. These words could have been left out without changing the question at all, yet this supposedly professional pollester used them. As I said before, this represents garbage polling.

These are just a few examples of how this poll is rife with bias caused by faulty questioning techniques. Because it is a PAID-FOR poll, I have no doubt these faulty questions are NOT an accident but instead carefully and purposefully worded to skew the results of the poll.

All that said, Houston Nutt still came out with a favorable rating of nearly 68.75%. Go figure. Nearly 7-out-of-10 fans support Houston Nutt. That's pretty damn good for a guy with so much turmoil in his life. It's amazingly good for a man who is being accused of everything short of being the original cause of mankind's sinning nature.

[Hong Kong Sooey]

<<< For a certain group of 50 protestors...

Assuming these are the actual questions, I think some of the wording of the questions is VERY interesting. In fact, they are worded such that they bias the answers.

Examples:

Question #5: "When speaking before a group in Texas earlier this year Frank Broyles said that the Arkansas football team only has the potential to be the 7th best program in the SEC. Do you agree with that statement or do you think the football program can do better?"

First of all, the first statement BIASES the question that follows. Second, the question that follows is FAULTY because it really asks something different than what the first statement said. THIRD, what Frank Broyles was referring to was POTENTIAL, not expectations, but the use of the word ONLY leads one to believe that Frank Broyles was suggesting that this is the best Arkansas can do. What he actually talked about was where Arkansas DOES RANK based on POTENTIAL. The fact is Arkansas has consistenly performed ABOVE potential, and this is a good thing. Consistent performance ABOVE POTENTIAL means the program OVERPERFORMS. Please tell me that's not a bad thing. I think it's great! The question then asks the pollee if he or she agrees with Broyles supposed statement or thinks the football program can do better. The pollee is being asked to agree or disagree with a statement Frank Broyles made about POTENTIAL. Nobody can DENY that Arkansas' POTENTIAL based on recruiting base/market, program funding, etc. is 7th. That's a FACT, so asking somebody to agree or disagree on this is STUPID and BIASES the REAL question the pollster wants us to believe is being asked, which is "Don't you think Arkansas can do better?" The OBVIOUS answer is YES, and the FACTS bear out that Arkansas HAS done better. This question alone makes this a GARBAGE POLL.

Question #6: "Are you aware of the controversial emails sent by booster Teresa Prewitt to Mitch Mustain and Wally Hall?" With the use of the word "controversial", the pollsters use this question to bias questions that follow it. Of course the emails were controversial, but there was no reason to actually USE the word "controversial". To UNBIAS the poll, this word should have been left out so that the pollee could make up his or her own mind about whether or not the emails were controversial or wrong.

Question #7: "Do you believe Chancellor White should have done a better job investigating questionable behavior by the football staff concerning the controversial emails?" Again, word choice is important so as not to bias a poll. Calling the football staff's behavior "questionable" and again using the word "controversial" only serves to point to pollee in ONE direction. These words, by nature, are negative in context, leading one torward a negative response. These words could have been left out without changing the question at all, yet this supposedly professional pollester used them. As I said before, this represents garbage polling.

These are just a few examples of how this poll is rife with bias caused by faulty questioning techniques. Because it is a PAID-FOR poll, I have no doubt these faulty questions are NOT an accident but instead carefully and purposefully worded to skew the results of the poll.

All that said, Houston Nutt still came out with a favorable rating of nearly 68.75%. Go figure. Nearly 7-out-of-10 fans support Houston Nutt. That's pretty damn good for a guy with so much turmoil in his life. It's amazingly good for a man who is being accused of everything short of being the original cause of mankind's sinning nature.

Take it up with the polling company.

This is their poll.

The BAC and the RF had the opportunity to work with the poll's financer to make sure the poll was as balanced as possible.  They refused. 

Based on the number of people trying to spin with the same talking points you are using, I think we know why...


Oh, and it's 61.75%.

[Fresh Legs]

<<< For a certain group of 50 protestors...

Assuming these are the actual questions, I think some of the wording of the questions is VERY interesting. In fact, they are worded such that they bias the answers.

Examples:

Question #5: "When speaking before a group in Texas earlier this year Frank Broyles said that the Arkansas football team only has the potential to be the 7th best program in the SEC. Do you agree with that statement or do you think the football program can do better?"

First of all, the first statement BIASES the question that follows. Second, the question that follows is FAULTY because it really asks something different than what the first statement said. THIRD, what Frank Broyles was referring to was POTENTIAL, not expectations, but the use of the word ONLY leads one to believe that Frank Broyles was suggesting that this is the best Arkansas can do. What he actually talked about was where Arkansas DOES RANK based on POTENTIAL. The fact is Arkansas has consistenly performed ABOVE potential, and this is a good thing. Consistent performance ABOVE POTENTIAL means the program OVERPERFORMS. Please tell me that's not a bad thing. I think it's great! The question then asks the pollee if he or she agrees with Broyles supposed statement or thinks the football program can do better. The pollee is being asked to agree or disagree with a statement Frank Broyles made about POTENTIAL. Nobody can DENY that Arkansas' POTENTIAL based on recruiting base/market, program funding, etc. is 7th. That's a FACT, so asking somebody to agree or disagree on this is STUPID and BIASES the REAL question the pollster wants us to believe is being asked, which is "Don't you think Arkansas can do better?" The OBVIOUS answer is YES, and the FACTS bear out that Arkansas HAS done better. This question alone makes this a GARBAGE POLL.

Question #6: "Are you aware of the controversial emails sent by booster Teresa Prewitt to Mitch Mustain and Wally Hall?" With the use of the word "controversial", the pollsters use this question to bias questions that follow it. Of course the emails were controversial, but there was no reason to actually USE the word "controversial". To UNBIAS the poll, this word should have been left out so that the pollee could make up his or her own mind about whether or not the emails were controversial or wrong.

Question #7: "Do you believe Chancellor White should have done a better job investigating questionable behavior by the football staff concerning the controversial emails?" Again, word choice is important so as not to bias a poll. Calling the football staff's behavior "questionable" and again using the word "controversial" only serves to point to pollee in ONE direction. These words, by nature, are negative in context, leading one torward a negative response. These words could have been left out without changing the question at all, yet this supposedly professional pollester used them. As I said before, this represents garbage polling.

These are just a few examples of how this poll is rife with bias caused by faulty questioning techniques. Because it is a PAID-FOR poll, I have no doubt these faulty questions are NOT an accident but instead carefully and purposefully worded to skew the results of the poll.

All that said, Houston Nutt still came out with a favorable rating of nearly 68.75%. Go figure. Nearly 7-out-of-10 fans support Houston Nutt. That's pretty damn good for a guy with so much turmoil in his life. It's amazingly good for a man who is being accused of everything short of being the original cause of mankind's sinning nature.

Okay throw out 5 thru 7.  Look at the two that will really matter to both sides, questions #9 and #10.

BTW, where are you getting 68.75%?  That's only for the occasional fan.  The avid fan is at 61.75%.  Either way that's not too great no matter the circumstances.  It's certainly not 5% or a small vocal minority. 

[ally_mcsqueal]

Okay throw out 5 thru 7.  Look at the two that will really matter to both sides, questions #9 and #10.

BTW, where are you getting 68.75%.  That's only for the occasional fan.  The avid fan is at 61.75%.  Either way that's not too great no matter the circumstances.  It's certainly not 5% or a small vocal minority. 

Someone at work pointed out that Houston's approval rating seems to mirror his win percentage, so that's fitting.

[Bird of Prey]

If you combine JFB/White (40%) with Nutt (61.75%) and average them, you get an overall satsfaction rate of 50.875%

And this is on the heels of the Big 10 win season.

OUCH !

[RazorRaider]

If you combine JFB/White (40%) with Nutt (61.75%) and average them, you get an overall satsfaction rate of 50.875%

And this is on the heels of the Big 10 win season.

OUCH !

Yep.

Now what do you think the satisfaction rating would look like after we go 7-5 this season, and no heisman for DMac because Nutt screwed him out of it?

[hawgfanatic]

If you combine JFB/White (40%) with Nutt (61.75%) and average them, you get an overall satsfaction rate of 50.875%

And this is on the heels of the Big 10 win season.

OUCH !

Why would you average those together?  If my sister had a sac she would be my brother.

[Hong Kong Sooey]

Why would you average those together?  If my sister had a sac she would be my brother.

Tell me about your motherrrrr......