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Gallup on NSA Phone Records

May 15, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal3 Comments on Gallup on NSA Phone Records

Another day and yet another poll on the NSA phone records controversy.  This one, conducted on Friday and Saturday by USAToday and Gallup (n=809,Read More…

The Latest from CBS/NYT

May 10, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal1 Comment on The Latest from CBS/NYT

Another day, another very high profile poll release.  Today, it’s the latest from the CBS/New York Times (see NYTimes article, results; CBS articRead More…

An “Immigration-Enforcement” Third Party?

April 28, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal6 Comments on An “Immigration-Enforcement” Third Party?

Yesterday, our friend Mickey Kaus highlighted a question from a recent Rasmussen automated survey worth examining a bit more closely.  The questiRead More…

The Question That Answers Itself

April 21, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal5 Comments on 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."&nbspRead More…

More in Immigration

April 5, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal1 Comment on More in Immigration

Gallup’s Frank Newport posted a multi-poll analysis this morning on American’s attitudes toward immigration policy.   It is similar to some Read More…

Immigration: Ask Many Questions, Not One

April 3, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal3 Comments on Immigration: Ask Many Questions, Not One

Over the weekend, Mickey Kaus criticized an immigration question asked on a recent Time Magazine poll as having "comically biased wording." Read More…

Newport’s Answer to Kurtz

March 30, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal

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…

The AMA Spring Break Survey – Part II

March 29, 2006November 13, 2019 Mark Blumenthal12 Comments on 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

March 28, 2006November 13, 2019 Mark Blumenthal11 Comments on 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…

On Random Sampling and NYT Katrina Evacuee Study

March 23, 2006October 1, 2019 Mark Blumenthal

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…

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