Most of these exercises pose issues for discussion. There are no right or wrong answers, but there are more and less thoughtful answers.
3.86 Making poll results public.
Some people think that the law should require that all political poll results be made public. Otherwise, the possessors of poll results can use the information to their own advantage. They can act on the information, release only selected parts of it, or time the release for best effect. A candidate’s organization replies that it is paying for the poll in order to gain information for its own use, not to amuse the public. Do you favor requiring complete disclosure of political poll results? What about other private surveys, such as market research surveys of consumer tastes?