Focus Groups – What They’re Not
Yesterday, the Hotline On Call blog reported on focus groups conducted by Republican pollster Frank Luntz recently among Democrats in Iowa and New HamRead More…
Demystifying the art and science of pre-election polling – By Mark Blumenthal
Yesterday, the Hotline On Call blog reported on focus groups conducted by Republican pollster Frank Luntz recently among Democrats in Iowa and New HamRead More…
A belated link: Two weeks ago, the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz asked (and Mickey Kaus amplified) a question in his blog about "only compRead More…
Picking up where we left off yesterday, the AMA’s Spring Break survey has problems other than the disclosure of its methodology. We must also cRead More…
Last week, MP discussed a not-quite projective study of evacuees from Hurricane Katrina published by the New York Times. I noted the effort madRead More…
Here is a round-up of some quick links on an otherwise busy day:
Prof. Franklin unpacks more analysis on why the Bush job rating seems to indicate weeRead More…
Last week, in looking at the graph of the Bush approval rating data as plotted by our friend Prof. Charles “Political Arithmetik” Franklin, I asked wRead More…
An article in yesterday’s New York Times on interviews conducted among Katrina evacuees raises some very important questions about how to use a surveyRead More…
And speaking of Gallup…
Here at MP, we are not prone to posting gossipy items about the polling industry, largely because what little gossip MP hearRead More…
Gallup’s David Moore has posted an analysis this morning (free for today only) with an important lesson on how to write – or perhaps, how not to writeRead More…
Helping to underscore the question I asked at the end of Friday’s post, Gallup has released another national survey this morning that shows no change Read More…