1.12 Clash between Islam, West Is Political, Majority of Canadians Say The clash of civiliza- tions is a notion popularized by Harvard University professor Samuel P. Huntington, who theorized that the principal source of conflict in the post-Cold War world will spring from cultural and religious divisions. Most Canadians reject the notion that the Islamic and West- ern worlds are engaged in a clash of civilizations based on culture and religion, according to an international poll published in The Ottawa Citizen, February 19, 2007. Pollsters interviewed 1008 Canadians in Decem- ber and January as part of an international survey in 27 countries. In theory, in 19 cases out of 20, the results of the poll would not differ by more than 3 percentage points from those obtained by interviewing all Cana- dian adults. The GlobeScan survey found that a major- ity (56%) of Canadians regard the conflict between Islam and the West to be primarily about "political power and interests." Only 29% said religious and cultural differences are to blame. Thus,

a. If the pollsters were planning to use these results to predict the opinion for 2008, describe the popula- tion of interest to them.

b. Describe the actual population from which the sample was drawn.

c. Are all of the reasons accounted for in this table? Add another category if necessary.

d. Is the sample selected by the pollsters representative of the population described in part a? Explain.

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Political power and interests 56% Religious and cultural differences 29%