Doctors Dissect Dr. DeathA Slate news graph on Kevorkian's return.
Posted Thursday, June 7, 2007, at 1:28 PM ETAfter eight years in prison, Jack Kevorkian—the self-styled Rosa Parks of assisted suicide—is making the rounds on the talk show circuit again. Our partners at MediaCurves.com asked 560 medical doctors of different religions to watch Dr. Death's appearance this week on Larry King Live. Click below and you'll see how the doctors responded in real time to clips of Kervorkian's appearance on King. For extra insight, their responses to his pro-euthanasia message are broken down by religion.
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StumbleUponThere were also some interesting results when the respondents were questioned both before and after watching the video. Click on the image below for a more detailed look at the survey results.
For more information about how the survey was conducted, click here.
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Remarks from the Fray:
Neither the Slate article nor the MediaCurves article ever make it clear how many doctors responded. Slate indicates that 560 doctors were asked to watch the video, but never says how many responded. The bar charts are all in percentages for your confusion...I mean convenience. The MediaCurves article is more vague in saying a study of 560 doctors. Does that mean they asked 560 or that 560 doctors agreed to watch or that 560 doctors responded?
Doctors were invited to participate by direct and email. Doctors are notorious for having time management problems with a few exceptions like dermatologists. If the doctors weren't busy, I wonder why?
Given the level of uncertainty of the above, one logically now must ask the question, what kind of doctors were these? Were they dentists, medical examiners, pediatricians or what? HCD presented an edited version of an interview with Kevorkian, not balanced presentation. Response was determined during the video as to whether they agreed or disagreed with what was being said but it is unclear if this is a continuous rating, a periodic rating or a designed irregular interval. […]
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