(CBS News Graphic) Uh, 41% for, 52% against now, but both "Yes" and "No" bars are same height?
A CBS News Poll released today finds that 41 percent of Americans think the use of marijuana should be made legal. Fifty-two percent disagree.
The percentage supporting legalization has varied a bit recently. In March of this year 31 percent favored legalization but the number was higher in January at 41 percent, matching what it is now.
Thirty years ago just 27 percent thought the use of marijuana should be made legal.
Younger Americans are more likely than those who are older to support legalization.
OK, folks, sometimes I’m stoned, so help me with the graphic. They tell us their new poll shows 41% approval and 52% disapproval for the legalization of marijuana, yet when I look at the “Now” columns in the graphics, I see a “Yes” and a “No” hovering equally at 41%.
Then I see that just four months ago, about 30% approved and about 65% disapproved. Wow, what a shift in public attitudes in just four months!
Then, two months before that, people again equally approved and disapproved of pot at about 40%. Gee, people are fickle.
Finally, thirty years ago, “Yes” and “No” were both at about 25%, with about 5% “Don’t know” and somehow a mystery 45% who aren’t accounted for.
I may be a stoner, but apparently I have a better grasp of visual data than CBS’s graphic arts department.
What? A bar representing 41% of a million people would be the same height as one representing 41% of a hundred people. I’d bet a pound of feathers against your pound of gold to prove it is true.
There were fewer people in 1979.
The graph is a mess but at least the buds are pretty!
Not sure about anybody else, but one thing sort of ‘jumped off the page’ for me when I looked at their chart, and then the article.
The way I looked at the chart, 41% said no, the rest (a majority) disagreed. Sounds a bit different than what they said, no?
I’ve got to agree, CBS needs to show how they conducted their polling and other specific details. These polling number seem a bit off. Why the spike of “No” votes around March?
I would have to see the whole poll but it looks like a sampling error. the 3/09 numbers looks like they were not corrected for groups more than likely more people over 50 in that sample
If its a phone poll it they cannot be trusted,