Another Online Poll on Online Activity
Last week’s "Numbers Guy" column by Carl Bialik of the Wall Street Journal Online looked at another online survey about an online activity, Read More…
Category: Internet Polls
Corrections!: An AMA Spring Break Update
We have had some new developments over the last few days regarding the online Spring Break study conducted earlier this year by the American Medical ARead More…
Mom’s Pay: Another Non-Random Sample
The Wall Street Journal Online’s Carl Bialik is on the case of another non-random sample survey conducted online. In this week’s Numbers Guy colRead More…
An Online Poll on an Online Activity
One of the gratifying things about writing this blog is the collective power of Mystery Pollster readers. Last week, I emailed some questions tRead More…
On Reporting Standards and “Scientific” Surveys
Two weeks ago, I posted a two-part series on an online spring break study conducted by the American Medical Association (AMA). That discussion cRead More…
The AMA Spring Break Survey – Part II
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…
The AMA Spring Break Survey – Part I
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…
Polling Holiday Sales
The Wall Street Journal’s "Numbers Guy" Carl Bialik takes a look this week at the various measures used to estimate retail sales over the ThRead More…