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Category: Political Polling

Pew Report on Telephone Surveys

Reg Baker 05/19/2017

Over the last several years the Pew Research Center has emerged as a valuable source of methodological research. Their new report, “What Low Response Rates Mean for Telephone Surveys,” is an especially interesting read with both good and bad news. If you do phone surveys, it’s a must read. My only critique of the report […]

Posted in Political Polling, Survey Research, Telephone SurveysComment

The AAPOR Report on the 2016 Election is Out

Reg Baker 05/04/2017

The political polling community has taken its share of hits over the last few years and there has been no shortage of brickbats thrown at pollsters both in the US and UK.  All sorts of explanations have been suggested. The response within MR has been especially amusing, focusing primarily on measurement error (asking the wrong […]

Posted in Market Research, Political Polling, Sampling, Survey ResearchComment

It’s the sampling, stupid! (Part 4)

Reg Baker 11/18/2016

This is the last in a series of posts arguing that the fundamental problem with the recent US electoral polls was the failure to achieve representative samples of the population that actually showed up to vote. I hope I have been clear that achieving such a sample with current methods is no mean feat given […]

Posted in Online Research, Political Polling, Questionnaire Design, Sampling, Statistics, Survey ResearchComment

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