Questions about general and technical aspects of polling: a sampling of opinions on a subject. Questions about SPECIFIC POLLING RESULTS should use [public-opinion] instead.
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Are opinion polls always representative of the extreme opinions?
Opinion polls involve a choice. The people who are being asked to take the poll can say yes or no.
I suspect that this leads to such a significant amount of self-selection bias that I am starting to think that most opinion polls are by and large…
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Does trust of strangers influence how likely someone is to answer a poll from a stranger?
I've always wondered about the type of people who take surveys. Who among us would take a random call in the middle of the day from a perfect stranger and spending the next 30 minutes answering dozens of extremely intrusive questions about your…
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Is it possible to have a 22 point difference between polls taken over the same time period?
So I checking the state of the Democratic Nomination polls today and I saw this head scratcher:
Quinnipiac 10/17 - 10/21 21 28 15 10 5 ... Warren +7
CNN 10/17 - 10/20 34 19 16 6 6 ... Biden +15
Both polls were taken over…
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How to extract the chance of winning from questions in the poll?
Polling is very new to me and I have a naive question:
Looking at HuffPost Pollster, I am trying to understand how numbers like "Clinton: 49%,
Trump: 37%" are obtained.
First of all, in every poll a number of questions (typically 7 to 20) are asked.…
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How to poll on a budget?
I would like to conduct a study examining the correlation between the Democratic candidates people support (and the policies these people espouse) and the positions of the candidates themselves (based on voting records, public discussions, etc.). My…
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