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07-12-2009, 11:18am
Damn good response Crane, and I agree wholeheartedly with your comments. Any evaluation is 'coloured' by the person conducting the reserach. It is human nature, no matter how hard you try, expectations and judgements creep into the results. Even statistics are evaluated by a computer program designed by a person. I wasn't arguing for or against the research, I was arguing for participation (in more than just this survey I must admit).
It is the media that is more of an issue, by using the language they use every time there is a motorcyle accident (police are seeing if speed was a factor.... witnesses are being sought to see if the motorcyclist was riding irresponsibly prior to the accident...), they are altering the perceptions of the general public and painting us all as wheel spinning hoons. It means that in the public's eye, there is the assumption that the bike was at fault before anything else. Nothing about cars that don't look or indicate. P-plate drivers and motorcyclists and PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN CANBERRA are all percived in a certain way due to the language that is used in the media.
Well. That got slightly off topic.
P.S. You do all realise that the politicians live with you don't you, they just visit Canberra. We quite like it when they f*** off to where you live.
It is the media that is more of an issue, by using the language they use every time there is a motorcyle accident (police are seeing if speed was a factor.... witnesses are being sought to see if the motorcyclist was riding irresponsibly prior to the accident...), they are altering the perceptions of the general public and painting us all as wheel spinning hoons. It means that in the public's eye, there is the assumption that the bike was at fault before anything else. Nothing about cars that don't look or indicate. P-plate drivers and motorcyclists and PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN CANBERRA are all percived in a certain way due to the language that is used in the media.
Well. That got slightly off topic.
P.S. You do all realise that the politicians live with you don't you, they just visit Canberra. We quite like it when they f*** off to where you live.