Deltapoll survey for BBC porn show - lies damned lies statistics ?

[jpaul]

post went wrong .. is there something up with the forum.
I'll try again

 

[jpaul]

..got distracted so I guess it wasn't that important -

The BBC published below survey, related to an upcoming programme

The supposedly credible Deltapoll company provide zero details of how the poll is conducted to allow us to see if the results are statistically significant; their website does not elaborate on this either, so,
I take it all as a frivolous irresponsible tabloid journalism.... below the standards I expect of the BBC,
whose upkeep I contribute to.

Looking on the web you can find several critiques of this datapoll company eg , but, if they are like other online surveys, for monetary/voucher gain people sign up to a survey company app, and may periodically be asked to fill one out,
that does not seem a good foundation for an unbiassed sample of the population. eg. people who sign up for online surveys have lots of time on their hands, so may idly watch porn too.

A new survey commissioned for the BBC Three series Porn Laid Bare – which asked more than 1,000 people online in Great Britain, aged 18-25, about their relationship to pornography – revealed 55% of men said porn had been their main source of sex education.

However, only 34% of women said the bulk of their sex education came from adult material, with 50% of female respondents expressing fears that porn dehumanised women.

Some 77% of men acknowledged they'd viewed x-rated content in the last month, compared with 47% of women.

 

[d_brennen]

"Sex education" isn't titillation, you don't get sex education from porn. The whole premise is flawed.

People like smut shocker! Glad I don't have a TV licence tbh

 

[jpaul]

re-posting earlier example of questionable survey techniques/companies

the contributors to the facebook survey https://www.demos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Plugged-In-Final-Report2.pdf
Unless they tell me otherwise (can't see it) .. the contributors were people who sign up to that company, so that is a representative sample - lol

I need to sign up with a few aliases ....

Anyway - Deltapoll and Opinium are a disgrace to the statistics profession

 

[Strife212]

The supposedly credible Deltapoll company provide zero details of how the poll is conducted to allow us to see if the results are statistically significant;

It's a survey not a scientific paper, also it's a BBC three show

"Sex education" isn't titillation, you don't get sex education from porn.

Surely that's the point of the survey.