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A technique for influencing public opinion is polling organizations which have demonstrably been shown to slant their public opinion questions in order to achieve desired results, but which may also be engaged in outright deception and alteration of statistics in the service of whomever is paying them. During the recent bloody American intervention in Yugoslavia public opinion pollsters placed approval of the war by the public at 73 percent, while an informal poll that I and some friends conducted determined exactly the opposite, that only one-third of Americans supported the bombing. I know that we are not lying.

— Jim Keith; Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness view

As Lewin had discovered, the public believed that women did not lie in crisis situations. [...] Munzenberg declared that using women for propaganda purposes was good strategy, because women were not perceived by the public as capable of telling sustained lies.

— Dr. John Coleman; The Committee of 300 view