But do you realize that to an extent that's exactly what polling firms do( carefully pick the area to poll)? They pick areas where they're likely to get the result the client wants. Then they carefully word the question to make it confusing to the respondent, or the answer choices are designed so they force the response they're asking for.
They have qualifiers at the beginning of a poll. These could be age, sex, employment, education, salary range. Beware of polls that ask these qualifiers before they get into the poll. They're fishing for just the right demographic to pad the poll.
The questions can be done in 2 ways, and both are effective in getting the right answers. One way is a great long paragraph, read verbatum, and quickly, then asking if you 1. strongly agree, 2. somewhat agree, 3, disagree, 4. somewhat disagree, 5. strongly disagree.
The other method is to make a statement based on some press nonsense. Then say: which of the following statements is closest to your opinion, and offer you 3, 4, or more long winded, and usually poorly written statements, and you have to choose.
Most, but not all, polling firms insist that their people read everything verbatim. If you ask them to clarify, they're trained to say," I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to interpret the question, but I can read it for you again". Trust me, this is drilled and drilled in training. Then they read it again, exactly as before.
Try to get out of answering? "I'm sorry, but I require an answer before we can go on, now, would you say . . ." Hang up? your number goes to a Refusal Buster, who will try it again.
I've been trying to find an online poll to lead you to. The preditory company I'm most aware of, won't call me - I'm on their Do Not Call list.
Been there, done that - refuse to wear the t-shirt.
Hawk