An epic data nerd battle started last Wednesday over Twitter as critics lambasted Public Policy Polling (PPP) for withholding a weekend poll of voters in Pueblo County, Colorado. … PPP is not a public agency, it’s not a non-profit, and it’s not under any obligation to anyone but its clients […] Read more »
There’s Something Wrong With America’s Premier Liberal Pollster
No pollster attracts more love and hate than Public Policy Polling. … Last fall, PPP was front and center in conservative complaints about allegedly skewed polls. But when the election results came in, PPP’s polls were vindicated and the conspiracy-minded critics were debunked. Pollsters, though, tend to judge one another […] Read more »
A battered polling industry takes stock
A new survey highlights the two-front problem facing the polling industry: People don’t trust polls, and many say they are unlikely to want to participate in them. [cont.] Jennifer Agiesta, AP Read more »
We All Want More of Everything—Except Taxes: How Opinion Polling Constrains Washington
… While our desire for lots of government programs but low taxes is documented, current polling practices are at least slightly to blame for the fact that politicians feel the need to fulfill all of the public’s “wishes.” What politicians see is that the public supports all of these programs. […] Read more »
Facebook Offers New Windows Into Social Conversation
Facebook is releasing two new search tools on Monday designed to give news organizations — and potentially, marketers — more insights into the real-time social conversation occurring on Facebook, particularly around television shows, big news and sporting events. One of the new tools will allow news organizations to use keywords […] Read more »
Top Pollster Gallup Is Jolted By The Innovator’s Dilemma
… Gallup’s troubles can be summed up in three words: the innovator’s dilemma. That term, coined by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, describes the sickness that ensues if you fixate on your high-end customers and ignore the market’s low end. Cheap, new methods seep in, eventually disrupting a whole […] Read more »