Original title: (Photo) The poll is unanimous: Hristian Mickoski is far ahead of Zoran Zaev
On June 30 the portal Infomax.mk published an article with a title: (Photo) The poll is unanimous: Hristian Mickoski is far ahead of Zoran Zaev
The article says that polls after yesterday’s duel of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM leaders were unanimous. Hristian Mickoski is far ahead of Zoran Zaev. Namely in social media polls, Mickoski in one of them leads with 90 or 74 percent, while Zaev has 26, ie 10 per cent of the votes. According to many, it is clear evidence that the citizens are ready for the rebuilding that comes after July 15.
You can find the link to the original article here.
This portal very often publishes articles that support the opposition but also with Anti-EU and ANTI-NATO content.
This particular article writes about the convincing lead of Hristijan Mickoski ahead of Zoran Zaev in polls created by certain Facebook pages, in this case Anketa vo fokusot and Glasaj, whose posts are regularly with content against SDSM and regularly create such polls, in which, understandably, the VMRO-DPMNE party is in the lead.
The author of the text, probably for subjective reasons, used these votes on the social network Facebook to present them to the public as an allegedly relevant poll.
A poll is a methodological-statistical survey of public opinion on a specific topic, area or issue, services, products, etc. and is most often conducted by an agency or organization for public opinion research, which work according to certain criteria and target groups for examining public opinion.
In this particular case, these online polls cannot be taken as relevant evidence, much less, as the author puts it, “clear evidence” of who will win the July 15 election. The reason for this is the methodology and the way it is conducted.
By showing online voting on Facebook pages where 244 and 272 people voted, as can be seen from the image attached to the text, they are showing an alleged statistical research/polls. This is just one example of biased reporting in order to create a false image of reality and an attempt to “hunt” for more votes.
You can read more about whether we can trust online polls and how they affect the electorate, you can read more on the following link in the analysis of the F2N2 team.
