Rivers: Random Samples and Research 2000
Douglas Rivers is president and CEO of YouGov/Polimetrix and a professor of political science and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Instit...
Douglas Rivers is president and CEO of YouGov/Polimetrix and a professor of political science and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Instit...
Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011
Alex Lundry is Vice President and Director of Research for TargetPoint Consulting, a conservative political polling, microtargeting, and knowledge man...
Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011
Anthony Wells is the editor of the UK Polling Report and an associate director at YouGov [interests disclosed: YouGov is Pollster.com's parent company...
Emily Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011
A new poll released today in the Nevada senate race should serve as a lesson for any candidates who wish to refute negative poll results: leave the po...
Harry Enten | Posted 05.25.2011
When I visited the Daily Kos blog this afternoon, I was greeted by the following headline "Chamber of Commerce Skews Polling in Dem Swing Districts" ...
Emily Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday, Daily Kos released a poll of self-identified Republicans which showed surprisingly high agreement on a series of questions asking whether B...
Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011
Humphrey Taylor is chairman of the Harris Poll at Harris Interactive, which conducts surveys on the internet. I have read Yeager and Krosnick's recen...
Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011
Mike Mokrzycki is an independent consultant who has studied implications of the growing cell-phone-only population for survey research. He was the fou...
Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama has appointed the first U.S. copyright czar. Our profoundly broken copyright laws, rather than fostering creativity, as they were originally intended, now inhibit it at every turn.
Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011
Douglas Rivers is president and CEO of YouGov/Polimetrix and a professor of political science and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Instit...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
"Can I trust this poll?" In Part I of this series I tried to present the growing clash between traditional polling methods and a new breed that breaks...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
What makes a public opinion poll "scientific?" If you had asked that question of a random sample of pollsters when I started my first job at a polling...
Lesley Stern | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not advocating dining and dashing (except on special occasions). Nor am I suggesting we return to the old ways of hunting and foraging for sustenance (a practice often referred to as "stealing" these days).
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out the use of statistical sampling in the 2010 head count,...
Mitch Ceasar | Posted 05.25.2011
In these tough economic times, when the going gets tough, the tough go sampling.
Daniel Werman | Posted 05.25.2011
While sampling's presence may have made hip hop into the form that many of us miss dearly, its absence could actually start to foster a broad sound that we may soon grow to know and love.
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
In the survey world, this is very big news (from AP via The Page): President Barack Obama is tapping Robert M. Groves, a University of Michigan pro...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Another in series of brief interviews conducted at this week's AAPOR Conference, this one from Patrick Murray, director of the Polling Institute at Mo...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
My NationalJournal.com column , which discusses the CBS panel survey conducted after the Barack Obama's speech on race and Jeremiah Wright and the att...
Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday, in a burst of blogger exuberance, I posted some charts emailed by my long ago employer Harrison Hickman, the Democratic pollster now associ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
Gallup's Jeff Jones responds to my post yesterday suggesting a possible day-of-week effect in the Gallup Daily tracking of the Obama-Clinton race: ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
A quick note to regular readers that I updated my original post on the Gallup Daily tracking below with some second thoughts about the statistical sig...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
I received some interesting charts this afternoon from Harrison Hickman and Ben Margolis, both of the Democratic firm Global Strategy Group that polle...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
On Friday I posted a brief item wondering about what effect last night's Super Bowl broadcast might have on number collected over the weekend. Gallup ...
Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
ABC News and The Washington Post reported results of a new poll today, which asks Americans which major event they are more excited about, the Super B...
Guest Pollster | Posted 05.25.2011