Iraqi Women Optimistic of Future

[SkyDekker 1,465]

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Pain and terror is just a matter of where you live...that's a novel approach...

it is , once you get past the thought that only your system is good.

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was not directed to you but to the left in general. Sorry if it seem as if I was talking about you,

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Since in your long tirade you didn't address the original point I guess you agree with me.....

That's fine, so then since you didn't address my points, I can safely assume you and the Taliban share some common points of view.

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With a country as diverse as Iraq and the turmoil it is in, we really need some more information on how this survey was conducted.

Let's say for instance it was conducted by phone, now do the same survey but do it via intercepts in a rural area. I would be pretty sure the results would be very different.

It was right there towards the end of the article. Why don't you try reading the entire article before you comment?

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The survey, conducted by Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies (CSSR), randomly sampled women in three geographic areas in order to represent the views of Iraqi women across different educational, economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. The sample size was 1,000 women and covered seven cities in three governorates, Baghdad, Mosul, and Basra.

The standardized questionnaire was administered by women researchers in face-to-face interviews with the female heads of household. The survey contained 35 questions that covered the respondents’ demographic information as well as their perceptions on access to medical care, education, and economic and political participation in the past year.

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You've criticized GM's article, but you've got nothing to back up your position. Simply saying "That isn't reality" doesn't make so.

Anyone reading any statistic has to look at the context. If the context/methodology is invalid or biased, the research/poll is invalidated.

This poll was of a small number of a select group of women living only in cities (areas of commerce and politics). This is a small percentage of women as a whole from a cultural, experiential, and geographic stance, and thus not representative of the whole.

I read research constantly, and it is pretty easy to determine the biased ones from the not, by looking at who sponsored the study and the methodology used. Ever notice that studies sponsored by companies always show their product to be the best, never any other product? This study (the group who does the research) is funded by the US State Dept. So both the funding and methodology are flawed, meaning that this study should not be relied upon as gospel truth.

You are painting with a very large brush here and I disagree that valid results are unobtainable from a small sampling or that the results are always skewed because of the sponsor of the poll. I would direct your attention to most political polls run by news orginazations and political parties. For example, Kerry was not often portrayed as leading in the last election by any polling orginization the last month or so in the last election. It didn't matter whether the polls were done by the DNC, RNC, CNN, ABC, CBS,The BBC etc. The results were always very close to the same and even when they were different, the numbers weren't too far apart and most of the sampling was with fewer than 1000 people.

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You are painting with a very large brush here and I disagree that valid results are unobtainable from a small sampling or that the results are always skewed because of the sponsor of the poll. I would direct your attention to most political polls run by news orginazations and political parties. For example, Kerry was not often portrayed as leading in the last election by any polling orginization the last month or so in the last election. It didn't matter whether the polls were done by the DNC, RNC, CNN, ABC, CBS,The BBC etc. The results were always very close to the same and even when they were different, the numbers weren't too far apart and most of the sampling was with fewer than 1000 people.

Again, this was ONLY head of household women ONLY in cities. That, combined with the small number makes the poll representative ONLY of head of household women in cities, NOT representative of all Iraqi women. In addition, they were face to face polls, not anonymous, which could also affect results. There are too many flaws in methodology to make this a remotely plausable study. It is meaningless without proper methods used.

Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda