Pollsters Have to Be Concerned About Ideological Self-Identification in Polls

question 47

Multiple Choice

Pollsters have to be concerned about ideological self-identification in polls because

• A) many Americans do not know what liberalism and conservatism mean.
• B) many Americans do not feel the need to be ideologically consistent.
• C) some respondents will hide what they think to be socially unacceptable self-identifications.
• D) the desire to hide self-identifications might inflate responses of "don't know" or "moderate."
• E) All of the above.