Week 5 Reading Response 2

In “Skin-Deep: What Polls of Minorities Miss” David Bositis examines minority group poll results. Bositis states that opinion polls fail to adequately sample minority population. When a minority is inadequately polled they encourage stereotypes about the minority at a large.

In Bositis’s argument he proposes the group whether it’s a news group or organization do not accurately poll the minority. Bositis finds that when minorities are polled that they are not a reliable source of opinion, because the group that does the poll does not poll a large amount of the minority. The minority polls are most often extremely risky and misleading, when the poll is reporting on crime, police misconduct, and elections. In the argument Bositis concludes that the polls that there are large margins of error in conducting minority polling, which shows that polling does not meet correct criteria; thus, making his argument a evaluative argument. Bositis finds that to achieve a valid minority poll is to poll more of the minorities population and to take the polling effort to the local level where people understand the views that they do or do not share. This finding also make Bositis argument a proposal argument.

Bositis makes a valid argument and covered his research polling very well. With his finding Bositis proves that the media does not take into consideration minority opinions as whole, which can discriminate the minorities. Minorities are often misunderstood by the media, this is why there is so many stereotypes and the racism is a never ending problem. If opinion polls correctly poll the minorities their would not be so many problems in the media with minorities and minorities would have equal treatment in the polling.