A 1992 Roper poll found that 22% of Americans say that the Holocaust may not hav

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A 1992 Roper poll found that 22% of Americans say that the Holocaust may not have happened. The actual question asked in the poll was “Does it seem possible or impossible to you that the Nazi extermination of the Jews never happened?” and 22% responded “possible.” The results of this poll cannot be trusted because undercoverage is present. Obviously, those people who did not survive the Holocaust could not be in the poll. the question is worded in a confusing manner. we do not know who conducted the poll or who paid for the results. nonresponse is present. Many people will refuse to participate, and those who do will be biased in their opinions.

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The result indeed show that question had been asked in biased way, where the interviewer already had a preconceived notion of the Nazi extermination of Jews to not have happened. This results in biased response. It is also not clear whom the question ad been asked that is age of the respondents who had any direct r indirect experience of the incident. More over, it is also not clear whether the poll was conducted online or offline. So, the question suffers from biased wordings, undercoverage and mode of interviewing.

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