02-10-2016, 10:24 AM
What polls? What data? From what island?
A poll that was commissioned by the TMT that surveyed 613 residence of all ethnicities across the entire state. Which when you figure how many of them were Hawaiian it's a pretty wimpy set of stats to hang a hat on.
From the article linked above by HereOnThePrimalEdge:
"The TMT Observatory Corp. commissioned the study, which surveyed approximately 613 people, aged 18 years and above, by cell phone and landline. The poll quota sampled for key demographic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, gender, and island to match Hawaii demographics based on Census data, with a margin of error at +/- 4 percent.
When asked, "Based on what you have heard, read, or seen, do you support moving ahead with construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea?” the Native Hawaiian and part Hawaiian respondents were split between 49 percent somewhat or strongly opposing and 44 percent somewhat or strongly supporting the project."
And that is not as others would like you to believe a 50/50 split. Elections are won and lost by way smaller margins, and in that poll the nays took it comfortably.
A poll that was commissioned by the TMT that surveyed 613 residence of all ethnicities across the entire state. Which when you figure how many of them were Hawaiian it's a pretty wimpy set of stats to hang a hat on.
From the article linked above by HereOnThePrimalEdge:
"The TMT Observatory Corp. commissioned the study, which surveyed approximately 613 people, aged 18 years and above, by cell phone and landline. The poll quota sampled for key demographic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, gender, and island to match Hawaii demographics based on Census data, with a margin of error at +/- 4 percent.
When asked, "Based on what you have heard, read, or seen, do you support moving ahead with construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea?” the Native Hawaiian and part Hawaiian respondents were split between 49 percent somewhat or strongly opposing and 44 percent somewhat or strongly supporting the project."
And that is not as others would like you to believe a 50/50 split. Elections are won and lost by way smaller margins, and in that poll the nays took it comfortably.