Leading Questions - Yes Prime Minister

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters bring it up whenever a poll or survey result looks suspect, as the classic illustration of biased question framing.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

LimeXd

Topic

leading questions in surveys

Format

comedy

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > the questions can shape the response. An excellent illustration of this: [VIDEO] Although in this case, it doesn't look like they had bad intentions and they seem to have dug at least a little below the surface and drawn what seem like sensible conclusions. …

• Link for the curious: [VIDEO] Starts at about 1:00. One of my favorite shows Edit: updated link, thanks @dvngnt_

• This is probably a good time to recall that polling in politics can be highly misleading . I recall an excellent segment on Yes, Minister that explains it [0, 1]. We really need to know the other questions they were being asked at the time …