Amal Saad-Ghorayeb dissects the Qatari poll

"..There are several flaws in the methodology. The sampling frame was YouGov's regional panel of 220 000 online respondents and therefore overrepresents internet users who are overwhelmingly young and urban. Secondly, the survey over-represents internet users who bothered to complete the survey--in other words people who feel strongly one way or another vis-a-vis the regime. There also seems to be an overinflated number of GCC respondents (the majority being Saudi) and few women respondents...I am sure if the sampling frame was a telephone directory for example, the results would have been skewed further in favour of Asad. And where on earth are all the questions they asked Syrians?...But the bottom line is, if the Qatar Foundation acknowledges this figure then we can safely assume it is higher...."