Sorry I have not been posting on my blog. It seems I have had a lot of other things with my student organizations and have put my education on the back burner (how ironic). So my goal is to work on catching up.
In this post, I will be explaining nonattitudes in public opinion and how it pertains to my issue. Nonattitudes is when someone takes an opinion when in reality they do not hold any position. It can be caused because the person is uninformed or because they feel that it is important to hold a position.
Nonattitudes occur usually when the public opinion is taken with at least one of the four following situations: state and local issues, international issues, policy minutia, and low salience.
When taking public opinion on education issues, I feel that it could be very likely that nonattitudes would affect the poll. Usually, education issues are dealed with at the state and local issues. The policy most closely affecting education occurs at this level with local school districts and state policy dealing with education. Depending on what the poll asks, policy minutia could be in play. If the poll were to ask specific details with jargon, the respondent may take a certain attitude. Finally, depending at the time, education issues could be of low salience. If they were asking opinion about education, it might be more salient at the back to school time or f there is a huge issue but the rest of the year there might not be as much discussion.
When looking at polls dealing with education this semester, I hope to be able to evaluate if nonattitudes were involved.
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