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

Hey guys! We react to Yes Minister’s take on Leading Questions and poll surveys.
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[@philsiverns4227]

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

[@helenchelmicka3028]

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

[@mrrolandlawrence]

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

[@TheSimCaptain]

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.

[@SPKdesign1]

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.

[@greigclement9081]

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

[@kevinbrown4073]

It was so good

[@kevinbrown4073]

Sir Humphrey is simply delightful

[@Michiganbartman]

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

[@markthomas2577]

That was a brilliant series in it's time

[@peterjones3557]

It's timeless!

[@michaelburgess6556]

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

[@crimson6666]

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

[@roberthaynes8830]

Such a well-written show.

[@jasonwhitehurst4508]

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

[@Isleofskye]

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

[@stanlyqbrick1621]

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

[@philipmorgan6048]

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

[@paulcockerill4260]

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

[@libbaT]

The world was never shutdown because of those ones

[@pumbar]

Excellent video, guys.

[@davemac1197]

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]

@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]

@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]

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

[@The.Android]

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]

Like in the movie "Starship Troopers"?

[@Nimish204]

You have banned politicians

[@lawrenceglaister4364]

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]

Are our friends still around, please, Lawrence?

[@akshayiyer8897]

Awesome, ' Truth is not done by Consensus'

[@JACB006]

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

[@christofferknight8567]

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

[@replevideo6096]

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".

[@25dimensionsfrancis42]

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

[@MENSA.lady2]

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.

[@staticcentrehalf7166]

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

[@ppheanix]

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 !

[@ppheanix]

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

[@HighHoeKermit]

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]

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.

[@iam33iamgod35]

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

[@jonathancole833]

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 KZbin. I remember first watching it in the early 80s - Hawthorne plays a different type of civil servant, very amusing indeed!

[@25dimensionsfrancis42]

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

[@ChicagoDB]

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

[@ChicagoDB]

Well done…

[@iam33iamgod35]

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

[@iam33iamgod35]

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

[@Isleofskye]

I fear you are right.

[@Inaflap]

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

[@dingopisscreek]

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

[@michaelball4683]

My też ci nie wierzymy

[@haroldcarfrey4206]

the 10 day quarentine is necessary for herd immunity

[@MrSporkster]

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

[@rosemarywoolley8394]

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

[@MrSporkster]

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

[@rosemarywoolley8394]

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

[@MrSporkster]

@@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]

@@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.

[@gordonlinton3555]

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.

[@ldewproductions7271]

She's beautiful

[@suk6323]

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

[@Simon-hb9rf]

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

[@scsarmiento9423]

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]

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]

Funny if you are 103 years old.

[@eddhardy1054]

And not funny if you're a child 🙄