The NYT Reader’s Guide to Polls
Jack Rosenthal, a former senior editor of the New York Times, filled in as the guest Public Editor” this past Sunday and devoted the column to a remaRead More…
Category: Measurement Issues
Even More on Measurement Error
Tuesday’s post on a question wording experiment by Rasmussen Reports yielded some interesting comments and email. Here is a sample. The RasmRead More…
Rasmussen Update: A Lesson in Measurement Error
Although still playing catch-up on the “day job,” I want to highlight something that has appeared without fanfare over the last week on Bush job apprRead More…
Words Worth Remembering
One of the great rewards of writing this blog is the incredible diversity of its readers — everyone from ordinary political junkies to the some of thRead More…
MP on NSA Polls on CBS Public Eye
Today I accepted an invitation to contribute to the "Outside Voices" feature on the CBS News blog "Public Eye." My post — aRead More…
Generic Ballot: What Does it Measure?
Several readers have asked for my opinion on the so-called “generic vote” or “generic ballot” asked on national surveys to gauge Congressional vote pRead More…
More on Rasmussen, Immigration & Third Parties
Today, thanks to pollster Scott Rasmussen, we have an update on that hypothetical third-party/immigration question he asked a few weeks ago on oRead More…
The Question That Answers Itself
A few weeks ago, our friend Mickey Kaus described a question asked on a recent Time Magazine poll as having "comically biased wording." Read More…
Rasmussen and Party ID – Part I
And speaking of putting the results of the new “automated” surveys under a microscope, we have some new data this week on party identification from aRead More…
The Perils of Double Negatives
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…