📊📝Yes Minister: How Survey Questions Really Work!😂😂

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  • čas přidán 25. 11. 2021
  • Hey guys! We react to Yes Minister’s take on Leading Questions and poll surveys.
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Komentáře • 84

  • @philsiverns4227
    @philsiverns4227 Před 2 lety +51

    I knew someone who worked for a survey company. The first question they asked when commissioned was "what result are you looking for?"

  • @helenchelmicka3028
    @helenchelmicka3028 Před rokem +10

    "Nevil Chamberlain was very keen on peace" 🤣🤣🤣 Genius!!

  • @mrrolandlawrence
    @mrrolandlawrence Před 6 měsíci +1

    my goodness this was so well written & still holds up today.

  • @TheSimCaptain
    @TheSimCaptain Před 2 lety +18

    That was a great demonstration of the power of leading questions. And why it's difficult to phrase questions in an unbiased way in a survey find out what people are really thinking.

  • @greigclement9081
    @greigclement9081 Před 2 lety +4

    The Yes Minister and Prime Minister showed brilliantly the bureaucracy and red tape of the British government .

  • @SPKdesign1
    @SPKdesign1 Před 2 lety +6

    This is how all Western Governments work.
    The two in the video are Civil Servants rather than Government Ministers.
    They are the ones that actually run the country.
    In Britain, the Government may change but the Civil Servants don't.

  • @kevinbrown4073
    @kevinbrown4073 Před 2 lety +2

    Sir Humphrey is simply delightful

  • @crimson6666
    @crimson6666 Před 2 lety +1

    Everyone needs to go back and watch yes minster because the old tricks sill are at work

  • @markthomas2577
    @markthomas2577 Před 2 lety +5

    That was a brilliant series in it's time

  • @Michiganbartman
    @Michiganbartman Před 2 lety +13

    Thanks to reacting to this video. Comedy exposes hypocrisy. That’s why some people fear it. Yes, review everything and comment. If I don’t like your video, I will just wait for the next one, or the next one, etc. I don’t always watch for context I watch for you. You are why I come back. AB

  • @jasonwhitehurst4508
    @jasonwhitehurst4508 Před 2 lety +3

    thanks for another great video guys.have a great weekend.

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye Před rokem

      Do you know what's happening to our friends,Jason? They do not appear to have posted for a year now.

  • @philipmorgan6048
    @philipmorgan6048 Před 2 lety +4

    These programmes were used as training videos for the Civil Service.

  • @stanlyqbrick1621
    @stanlyqbrick1621 Před 2 lety +6

    Yes Minister is so well written. It is a time machine into why we are where we are today.

  • @michaelburgess6556
    @michaelburgess6556 Před 2 lety +1

    Great to see you both again. God bless. Mike 🇮🇪☘

  • @replevideo6096
    @replevideo6096 Před 2 lety +1

    After Einstein published his theory of relativity, he was told that 100 scientists had come out to say he was wrong. He retorted "Why 100? If I am wrong it would take only one".

  • @paulcockerill4260
    @paulcockerill4260 Před 2 lety +3

    Are your kids vaccinated against whooping cough etc, the vaccines most kids have?

    • @libbaT
      @libbaT Před 2 lety +1

      The world was never shutdown because of those ones

  • @pumbar
    @pumbar Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent video, guys.

  • @JACB006
    @JACB006 Před 9 měsíci

    That was witnessing two people who don’t understand British humour …. They didn’t laugh once in the entire sketch.

  • @akshayiyer8897
    @akshayiyer8897 Před 2 lety

    Awesome, ' Truth is not done by Consensus'

  • @The.Android
    @The.Android Před 2 lety +5

    Yes, Felipe. National service for everyone. Men and women. Also, you cannot become an MP unless you have at least voluntarily completed some form of national service in the armed forces.

    • @iangray5407
      @iangray5407 Před 2 lety +1

      Like in the movie "Starship Troopers"?

    • @Nimish204
      @Nimish204 Před 10 měsíci

      You have banned politicians

  • @davemac1197
    @davemac1197 Před 2 lety +5

    Thanks guys, for a great reaction to Yes Minister. What is going on, Lillian, is that the Civil Service run the country, and elected politicians just make it more difficult for them and therefore have to be... managed.
    Felipe, I am in favour of National Service, I think it benefits countries that have it, there would be a greater uptake of regular military service by people going through the system and want to stay, and it would create a much larger reserve force that can be called on in time of national emergency. I don't see a down side, to be honest. Bring it on!

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 Před 2 lety

      @John Ashtone National Service , every Fighting man (Volunteer) needs a supply chain, ( Conscripts ), so Catering Corps, REME and so on all good alternatives leading to job potential after leaving. I think it was probably Oxford and Cambridge fed up of loosing students that led toward an elimination of national service, general unemployment sends lads into the Army as a place to earn money

    • @highpath4776
      @highpath4776 Před 2 lety

      @John Ashtone My Grandfather deserted in WW1, being Irish I think the COs were more concerned as to if he had taken his weapon with him or left it behind. My father did National Service in the Pay Corps as a Filing Clerk. Winning the peace in triplicate.

    • @Nimish204
      @Nimish204 Před 10 měsíci

      The downside is that everyone hates it. It wastes teenagers' time. And I can't emphasize this enough, everyone hates it

  • @ppheanix
    @ppheanix Před 2 lety

    Rumour has it that Margaret Thatcher (then PM) left Parliament (when they were sitting) every time Yes Minster / Prime Minister was on tv to watch it !

  • @roberthaynes8830
    @roberthaynes8830 Před 10 měsíci

    Such a well-written show.

  • @lawrenceglaister4364
    @lawrenceglaister4364 Před 2 lety +3

    Everyone can tell you have been here a while because you can take the clip apart well done , as normal in real life you can get the results what you want by not asking what you want directly but how you ask it .
    We once had an engineer at work who always did the opposite what we wanted so the engineering lads always asked the opposite what they wanted and ended up with what they really wanted.
    All governments say this is how the British Civil Service operates .

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye Před rokem

      Are our friends still around, please, Lawrence?

  • @HighHoeKermit
    @HighHoeKermit Před 2 lety +1

    There is suggestion that polls tend to use the same audience who have previously agreed to the narrative they're looking for... and those that don't agree are not polled again.

    • @raifthemad
      @raifthemad Před 2 lety +1

      Quite possible. I have been visited by a pollster once, over a decade ago, that really tried to make me say that people who are willing to pay extra out of pocket for our nationalized health care, should be able to skip the line. I didn't give her the answer she was looking for and haven't seen a pollster since.

  • @25dimensionsfrancis42
    @25dimensionsfrancis42 Před 2 lety +1

    Clearly devious.....since when were politics NOT devious.

  • @MENSA.lady2
    @MENSA.lady2 Před 9 měsíci

    Yes Minister scriptwriter was Peter Jay. He had served as UK Ambassader in the USA and his wife was the daughter of James Calahan the former UK Prime minister. So YES he was an insider.

    • @Machaggis67
      @Machaggis67 Před měsícem

      Nope. Writers were Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

  • @ppheanix
    @ppheanix Před 2 lety

    It is the tactics of the Civil Service who advise the PM/Ministers, not the PM or the government.

  • @25dimensionsfrancis42
    @25dimensionsfrancis42 Před 2 lety

    The most used phrase used by scientists and so called experts is...."Not what we believed before".

  • @christofferknight8567
    @christofferknight8567 Před 2 lety +1

    i studied statistics though out my senior education, buy altering questions to modifiers but not the actual numbers there will be conflicting results...... governments are very fond of statistics

  • @staticcentrehalf7166
    @staticcentrehalf7166 Před 2 lety

    Small point but this is from 'Yes Prime Minister.' Great clip/reaction though so thank you very much.

  • @iam33iamgod35
    @iam33iamgod35 Před 2 lety

    That's correct to what you say.... It doesn't mean it's correct or right, if the majority believe it to be so

  • @ChicagoDB
    @ChicagoDB Před 2 lety

    “Truth/Fact/Science” by consensus…indeed a disaster!

  • @ChicagoDB
    @ChicagoDB Před 2 lety

    Well done…

  • @iam33iamgod35
    @iam33iamgod35 Před 2 lety

    Fear of others and the fear of the unknown, but how can you fear the unknown?? Nothing more fearful than fear itself

  • @jonathancole833
    @jonathancole833 Před 2 lety

    Fans of Yes, Minister might like to check out a TV comedy-drama called The Knowledge, about the training that prospective London Black Cab drivers have to complete.
    It was made in 1979 and starred Jonathan Lynn (who co-wrote Yes, Minister) and Nigel Hawthorne, and can be viewed on CZcams.
    I remember first watching it in the early 80s - Hawthorne plays a different type of civil servant, very amusing indeed!

  • @iam33iamgod35
    @iam33iamgod35 Před 2 lety

    Not national service, but to live off the land and to adapt to living on the land (nature) and with nature

  • @dingopisscreek
    @dingopisscreek Před 2 lety

    I don't believe polls. They should stay in Poland 😅😅😅

  • @Inaflap
    @Inaflap Před 2 lety

    Have you watched any Adam Curtis documentaries? I'm sure you would find them interesting.

  • @MrSporkster
    @MrSporkster Před 2 lety +1

    Yeah I remember when all the polls said Biden would win the election, and then... oh wait, he did win the election.

    • @rosemarywoolley8394
      @rosemarywoolley8394 Před 2 lety

      Yeah I remember when the said trump could never win.!

    • @MrSporkster
      @MrSporkster Před 2 lety

      @@rosemarywoolley8394 the polls said that Trump would lose the popular vote, which he did.

    • @rosemarywoolley8394
      @rosemarywoolley8394 Před 2 lety

      @@MrSporkster Oh come on is that the best you can do.

    • @MrSporkster
      @MrSporkster Před 2 lety

      @@rosemarywoolley8394 it's the truth, so yes it's the best I can do. The electoral college vote is not polled, but the popular vote is.

    • @rosemarywoolley8394
      @rosemarywoolley8394 Před 2 lety

      @@MrSporkster Well you know best as an American. But I have to say I bet you wish those polls were wrong as you have ended up with a senile old man who barely knows the time of day. Poor thing I wonder who is pulling the strings.

  • @ldewproductions7271
    @ldewproductions7271 Před 2 lety

    She's beautiful

  • @haroldcarfrey4206
    @haroldcarfrey4206 Před 2 lety +1

    the 10 day quarentine is necessary for herd immunity

  • @gordonlinton3555
    @gordonlinton3555 Před 2 lety

    Peter Hitchens had a good quote on opinion polls :
    ‘Opinion polls are a device for influencing public opinion, not a device for measuring it. Crack that, and it all makes sense.’
    By the way, completely agree with your thoughts on the jab, the data is not great, to put it mildly.

  • @suk6323
    @suk6323 Před 2 lety +3

    are you or are you not a youtube channel crossing geo-political boundaries? please answer yes or no.

  • @Simon-hb9rf
    @Simon-hb9rf Před 2 lety +1

    nice try at the questions, just give it a bit more practice and you will be undermining democracy in no time!

  • @scsarmiento9423
    @scsarmiento9423 Před 2 lety

    The survey, is what codified cultures during colonialism. Made according to western standards and values, but in cultures based in a totally different history, traditions, etc. Result: an entire culture interpreted, reduced , codified according to the colonizers.

  • @noodleppoodle
    @noodleppoodle Před 5 měsíci +2

    I liked your reaction to the tv series but I didn;t like to hear what you had to say about vaccines. You are misinformed about how these vaccines work, and your insight into science is also limited. Consensus in science is not based on what 99% of scientists have randomly thought out in their heads but based upon rigoruous research that is scrutinised by all the other scientists.

  • @russellcooper5826
    @russellcooper5826 Před 2 lety

    Funny if you are 103 years old.

    • @eddhardy1054
      @eddhardy1054 Před 2 lety +12

      And not funny if you're a child 🙄