Must Read WSJ Article
In a crush of work yesterday, I somehow missed a terrific article by Sharon Begley in the morning’s Wall Street Journal, “Public-Opinion Polls DiverRead More…
Month: September 2004
The Election Isn’t Held Today
So far, we have been talking about the limitations of polling, a topic that we will discuss in great detail going further. However, with a slew of neRead More…
No Mystery
First of all, I need to clear up one bit of unintended mystery. As of today, my real name appears on the right sidebar as “editor” and in the authoRead More…
In medias res
Thank you, Mr. Kaus (and, for that matter, Mr. Reynolds as well).
Now that I have your attention, you may be wondering, who am I, and what is this bloRead More…
Weighting by Party
It is nearly impossible to blog on political polling this week without discussing the subject of weighting by Party ID. Ruy Teixeira of the EmerRead More…
So What Should a Junkie Do?
So what are we to make of polling, given that it allows for a wide variance of results at this point in the election? For average voters trying to maRead More…
More Divergent Than They Should Be?
Picking up where I left off on the last post, let’s start with the basic theory of random sampling. If we draw a series of perfect random samples, Read More…
Divergent Polls
Monday’s edition of National Journal’s Hotline listed seven headlines from the last few days that “say it all,” as they put it, about recent politRead More…