When people lie to pollsters!

Scoopit!

The Wall Street Journal has an extremely interesting article on polling and why people lie in their responses.

The article may help understand variances seen between polling responses and the results which actually occur.

The article has some interesting graphics including the one below:-

WSJ Polls Graphic

Obviously the position varies somewhat in New Zealand, but Adam would suspect that the overall issues on peoples behaviour do not vary much from that seen in the US.