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 […]
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 […]
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 […]