http://www.cheknews.ca/chek-point-poll-grizzly-bear-trophy-hunting-ended-b-c-294942/
This is a terrible poll but it's really easy to vote so please do.

Trophy hunting

Right now its losing, 45% to 55%. Maybe folks associate trophy hunting with wanton waste. Lack of real education about it likely.

On it Michael.

Done

done also.

Done deal. Come on gents we should be able to make this swing the other way.

I voted.

Yep, using the word trophy hunting is the way to bias the vote against grizzly hunting (any hunting for that matter).  

Might as well ask for a vote on NASCAR by asking if "Street racing should be legal."

I just cast my vote as well.

We are trying to get grizzly hunting legalized in Montana.

The antis are trying to ban all predator hunting as it is an easy mark and with the predators growing population the other game animals would decrease and then they would be able to stop hunting them easier.

Voted.

QuoteOriginally posted by Shadowhnter:
Right now its losing, 45% to 55%. Maybe folks associate trophy hunting with wanton waste. Lack of real education about it likely.

Hence the problem. There is no legal requirement here to salvage any meat from a grizzly. That is the definition of wanton waste. That is why the public is siding with the anti's on this one.

Most hunters here support a move to make meat salvage a requirement in order to keep ther hunt, but the Guide Outfitter Association is against it.

Bear snack sticks are great!  My brother, son, and I had 3 entire black bears made into these on a recent Idaho bear hunt.

Voted!

so why is the poll owner influencing the vote by calling it TROPHY HUNTING...why not just GRIZZLY HUNTING????

I hunt....I can appreciate a trophy quality animal but they are all trophies to me especially with a longbow or a selfbow even more.

Using those terms influences the public to think of it as just hunting skull and wasting the animal for nothing more than a measurement of its skull.

Voted

Voted.

It sure is sad to see all of these anti hunting movements. I'm worried that by the time I'm actually old enough to afford to go on some of these hunts, there won't be any hunts left to go on.

QuoteOriginally posted by Trenton G.:
Voted.

It sure is sad to see all of these anti hunting movements. I'm worried that by the time I'm actually old enough to afford to go on some of these hunts, there won't be any hunts left to go on.

Me too!

We lowered our loss by 2 points!

This is appealing to sentiment and feeling not knowledge. voted

"Polls" and "studies" are very discriminatory in my mind.  I dealt with this in my work for years.  As was pointed out, one single word can bias the whole thing  Where the poll is done and who is targeted will bias the whole thing.  

You will get the answer you want if you design it,  word it, or market it correctly..... and they do.