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: Sampling Error
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…
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…
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…
Gallup & The Samplemiser
The latest poll release from Gallup includes what appears to be a new approach for reporting their data on the job approval rating of President GeorgeRead More…
Not Such An Outlier After All?
The Diageo/Hotline Poll…(story, press release, full results) shows a very different result for the Bush job rating: 50% approve, 47% disapprove.&nbsRead More…
Outliers Happen
Two new national surveys released late last week add yet another wrinkle to the question of whether the approval ratings of President Bush are on theRead More…
Getting Past the Noise: Bush Slide Continues
The release of new results from six major public pollsters over the last two weeks provides a great opportunity to learn something about both the limRead More…
Bush Job Approval Up?
Let’s continue to obsess over the recent variation on the job approval rating of President George W. Bush and maybe learn something about sampling erRead More…
On Outliers and Party ID
Last week, the Gallup organization released a survey sponsored by CNN and USAToday, fielded February 4-6, that appeared to show a surge in President Read More…