Earlier blog posts outlined issues around polls and who completes them. There is a more fundamental question: whether polling is a tool of the television age and not of the internet age. CONT. Diane Feldman Read more »
Pollsters prep for more ‘whack-a-mole’ with 2016 in rearview
Pollsters gearing up for the 2020 presidential election have an additional task to contend with: convincing a skeptical public that their work is still reliable. Questions about their methods have dogged them since President Donald Trump’s surprise victory in 2016, although the midterm results helped mitigate some of those doubts. […] Read more »
Survey Context Effects on Middle East Sympathies
Survey research professionals are well aware that the way respondents answer a question can be influenced by the questions that precede it. “Context effects” can occur when results to a specific question vary when it is asked in different surveys, especially when those surveys cover different topics. Some context effects […] Read more »
Fundamental Errors with USA Today poll claiming “Half of Americans say Trump is victim of a ‘witch hunt’”
Earlier this week, a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll made big claims about the Mueller investigation, President Trump’s “witch hunt” claims and Trump impeachment possibilities. Specifically, the poll report claimed “half of Americans agree with President Trump’s contention that he has been the victim of a ‘witch hunt,’” and the […] Read more »
A Podcast about Podcasts? Breaking Down Edison Research & Triton Digital’s Infinite Dial Study
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, podcasting has marked a milestone. How? We speak with Tom Webster, Senior Vice President of Edison Research about the results of its latest Infinite Dial study. But first, President Donald Trump invoked recent poll numbers to bolster his argument that the investigation by […] Read more »
Experts push back on Trump-touted poll that shows 50% of Americans calling Mueller probe a ‘witch hunt’
President Donald Trump on Monday touted poll results that appeared to show more Americans than ever siding with his oft-repeated accusation that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is nothing more than a “witch hunt.” … But multiple polling experts took exception to the structure of the question. “I’m sorry […] Read more »