Public support for health courts

Let’s be accurate here.

This particular Harris Interactive poll involved 2,583 American adults age 18 and older.

The responses were:
62 percent – in favor of special health courts
17 percent – not in favor
21 percent – don’t know

62 percent of a sampling of fewer than 2,600 people does *not* constitute two-thirds of Americans. It is only representative of that particular survey sample, although reasonable individuals might be able to extrapolate to a wider population.

Also, the poll was conducted in March 2003. Not exactly ancient history, but it’s hardly “recent” either.

Anon 6:03:
For the last 50 plus years sampling using representative populations is how we have been polling. It is the best we have short of polling every person on every issue (clearly not feasable) and has been shown to be accurate (with a standard deviation) for the most part. Of course you could always try to get the largest population possible in a poll, but as Truman/Dewey found out back in 1948, that is not nearly as accurate as representative populations. Seems to me like you are reaching based on your own bias.