There’s a buzz over at the Associated Press, which has just updated its AP Stylebook with a new chapter on how to report on polls. … But does the update actually address the faulty poll problem? CONT. David W. Moore, iMediaEthics Read more »
Election Night Shakeup: Here Come The New ‘Exit’ Polls
… The future of polling — and how to look out the front window instead of the back — was a major theme at the American Association of Public Opinion Research conference this past week in Denver. And one particular presentation stood out for its attempt to break the mold […] Read more »
Book Review: ‘News, Numbers and Public Opinion in a Data-Driven World’
In 1954, Darrell Huff published How to Lie with Statistics, a tongue-in-cheek guide for those wanting to use numbers to deceive. The book, now widely distributed to first-year university statistics students, outlines how statistics can confuse and muddle both writers and readers. The upshot? Huff suggests that: ‘without writers who […] Read more »
Associated Press And Fox News Launch Project To Replace Exit Polls
Fox News and AP say they’ll conduct an election voter survey designed to replace the traditional in-person exit poll. This follows the 2016 election in which pollsters were criticized for inaccuracy. Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR Read more »
Kathleen Hall Jamieson in Conversation with Marty Kaplan
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center, won the 2018 Ev Rogers Award. In this concise discussion, she and Norman Lear Center Director Marty Kaplan cover V.D. (viral deception), “fake” news, truth, comm theory, Trump, Putin, and much […] Read more »
AP announces debut of new Election Day survey
The Associated Press announced today it will debut a new election survey in November aimed at capturing the opinions and preferences of voters as they choose who to vote for, along with the reasons behind their decision. AP VoteCast is based on a decade of research and experimentation that moves […] Read more »