… Ready or not, online polling has arrived. Political analysts and casual poll readers now face a deluge of data from new firms employing new, promising, but not always proven methodologies. Nowhere is the question of the accuracy of the new online polls more evident than in the survey results […] Read more »
Forget the 2016 Polls: Nobody Knows Anything Yet
Imagine interviewing for a top-level job where the hiring committee hasn’t gotten around to reading your resume, but HR keeps polling its members anyway to see if you should be brought back for the next round of interviews—and all the while, you’re sinking toward bankruptcy. Even worse, imagine that the […] Read more »
Why media should think twice about public-opinion polls: Panel discussion
A panel of experts criticized and offered candid insights on the media’s growing reliance on public-opinion polls during Harvard University’s recent Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics. CONT. Shorenstein Center, Harvard University Read more »
What do UK Muslims really think about terrorism?
On this week’s PB / Polling Matters podcast, Keiran speaks to Tom Mludzinski of ComRes about the firm’s polling among British Muslims earlier this year before speaking with Maria Sobolewska from the University of Manchester about her work looking at Muslim public opinion in the UK on terrorism and other […] Read more »
SurveyMonkey Fills the Gap as Traditional Political Polls Flounder
… After long rejecting online polls as a cheaper alternative, pollsters are thinking again, prompted by SurveyMonkey’s success. “The field has had a significant change of attitude about this from one of ‘No way’ to ‘Well, let’s take a look,’” says Scott Keeter, director of survey research at Pew, who […] Read more »
In Argentina, a Quiet Data Cruncher Aims to Bring Sense to a Raucous Election
With his fusty corduroy blazer, diffident mien and unpolished website, Andy Tow, an anonymous civil servant with a flair for data crunching, is emerging as an unlikely rock star of Argentina’s election season. CONT. Jonathan Gilbert, New York Times Read more »