The Fix: IVR Surveys & Response Rates
Yesterday (just before the Typepad outage that prevented me from posting all day), Chris Cillizza’s The Fix blog at WashingtonPost.com took a helpful Read More…
Category: Sampling Issues
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…
Mobile Phone Update
Two important reports were released over the last few days on the growing number of Americans with a mobile phone but no “wired” phone service and thRead 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…
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…
On Random Sampling and NYT Katrina Evacuee Study
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…
Zogby Troop Poll: The Random Probability Sample
On the Zogby poll of U.S. troops in Iraq, I need to make one point that was implicit in my comments on Wednesday a bit more explicit. While muchRead More…
About that YouGov Poll of British Muslims
Reader BK emailed with a question about a survey of Muslims in the United Kingdom conducted for the London Daily Telegraph by the company YouGov just Read More…