IF THERE IS A COUNTRY WHERE opinion polls should be banned, it is Kenya. When, as I have done before (DN, October 25), I argue that polls are more a tool for "political engineering" than for "social physics" as Auguste Comte envisaged, I raise real concern: Figures don't lie, but liars can figure.
Finding out what people think is a problem as old as man. After years of working on it, some mandarins discovered a way of going about the task:
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