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yuti — June 5, 2009 / 8:33 am
This morning I received an email on Indonesian president and vice president candidate polling. How the survey agency interpret the numbers is quite interesting. Using multistage random sampling covered 3000 respondents, the survey analyzed that from the respondents answers Indonesian most crucial issue is economic crisis. While questions that directly related with the candidate shows respectively integrity, empathy, competency, quick response, represent religion variety, combination of civil-military, represent local/cultural variety, and represent a certain party as criteria needed. The survey shows SBY-Boediono (71%) as the candidates that represent those criteria.
What interest me is how the survey deliver their findings. After number of the most favourite candidate based on the ideal criteria proposed, the presentation discussed about rumors of the most favourite candidate. The survey agency try to counter the rumors by prsenting another statistical data. For me, it is very tendencious 
Anyway, it interesting to see how the numbers were being played. In rankings, in politics, in work… Well, we live in a competitive age I guess
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