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Mixed feelings about the MPOI research findings about Mugabe
09 Oct 2015 at 11:14hrs | Views
Polepel have expressed mixed feelings about the findings of the Mass Public Opinion Survey (MPO) findings that President Robert Mugabe is the most popular and feared leader with some saying the research is bias.
Pedzisai Ruhanya said MPOI states that Mugabe is the most feared politician in Zimbabwe but is the most popular leader; Mass Public Opinion Survey (MPO1). A research should explain this oxymoron, contradiction.
"These serious contradictions in the research require further examination of the methodology and data analysis! A critical discourse analytic lens is required," he said.
Maxwell Matiashe said this is an opinion sought from people who do not trust the person interviewing them.
"Remember the fear of 2000 where you could not discuss anything political in public places. Fear does not go away easily," he said.
Ricky Munyaradzi Mukonza said "I also have serious reservations about the basis for conclusions in some of these studies. However, more than just critisize, we need to carry out our own studies that provide alternative views on the subject. This will give our criticism more weight."
Pride Mkono said Mugabe is Machiavellian and it far much for the Prince to be feared than to be loved... 2018 is around the corner and the outcomes seems pretty obvious!
Raymond Sango said "What more should be expected from a blunted neoliberal opposition challenging a nationalist bourgeois inspired neoliberal ruling party.The contradictions in the survey depict the political vacuum that exists in Zimbabwe today, the people having no alternative to the neoliberal hegemony of Zanu pf and MDC.The neoliberal opposition will be annihilated in 2018. The only way forward is a new political alternative whose praxis centres around the lived experiences, existential realities and practical economic needs of the suffering poor."
Pedzisai Ruhanya Ricky Munyaradzi Mukonza it sounds like the usual argument that you cant criticize a study because you have not carried one. The study can be criticized from a methodological and and theoretical view points and there is nothing wrong with that.
We do literature reviews of scholarly books on the basis of set standards of analysis, using analytic tools without necessarily writing/authoring books. This argument that you cant criticize a survey without carrying one is now a tired cliche in the ngo sector that is bereft of set set standards of procedural academic arguments why it should not be done
Pedzisai Ruhanya said MPOI states that Mugabe is the most feared politician in Zimbabwe but is the most popular leader; Mass Public Opinion Survey (MPO1). A research should explain this oxymoron, contradiction.
"These serious contradictions in the research require further examination of the methodology and data analysis! A critical discourse analytic lens is required," he said.
Maxwell Matiashe said this is an opinion sought from people who do not trust the person interviewing them.
"Remember the fear of 2000 where you could not discuss anything political in public places. Fear does not go away easily," he said.
Ricky Munyaradzi Mukonza said "I also have serious reservations about the basis for conclusions in some of these studies. However, more than just critisize, we need to carry out our own studies that provide alternative views on the subject. This will give our criticism more weight."
Pride Mkono said Mugabe is Machiavellian and it far much for the Prince to be feared than to be loved... 2018 is around the corner and the outcomes seems pretty obvious!
Raymond Sango said "What more should be expected from a blunted neoliberal opposition challenging a nationalist bourgeois inspired neoliberal ruling party.The contradictions in the survey depict the political vacuum that exists in Zimbabwe today, the people having no alternative to the neoliberal hegemony of Zanu pf and MDC.The neoliberal opposition will be annihilated in 2018. The only way forward is a new political alternative whose praxis centres around the lived experiences, existential realities and practical economic needs of the suffering poor."
Pedzisai Ruhanya Ricky Munyaradzi Mukonza it sounds like the usual argument that you cant criticize a study because you have not carried one. The study can be criticized from a methodological and and theoretical view points and there is nothing wrong with that.
We do literature reviews of scholarly books on the basis of set standards of analysis, using analytic tools without necessarily writing/authoring books. This argument that you cant criticize a survey without carrying one is now a tired cliche in the ngo sector that is bereft of set set standards of procedural academic arguments why it should not be done
Source - Byo24News
