Episode 14: The Nation's Data at Risk
A conversation with Connie Citro, a senior scholar at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Farrah Bostic
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Episode 13: Games People Play, with Valens Games
And a few notes on The Context There’s a new episode of Cross Tabs available in your feeds that dropped around midnight Eastern last night. We recorded it last Friday, July 19 — after the debate, after the weeks of controversy, after the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump
Episode 13: Games People Play, with Valens Games
And a few notes on The Context
Episode 12: Allegiance & Belonging with Professor Ray Block Jr.
How polling can help us check assumptions about patriotism and civic participation
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Episode 12: Allegiance & Belonging with Professor Ray Block Jr.
How polling can help us check assumptions about patriotism and civic participation Political polling and civic engagement are complex landscapes, particularly when viewed through the lens of racial dynamics and community organizing. Traditional understanding of political participation often falls short in capturing the nuanced reality of how different communities engage
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What the polls say, and what they don't
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What the polls say, and what they don't
I've read the cross tabs for every post-debate poll that offers them. Here's what I know.
When it's worse than you think.
We've been talking about whether Joe Biden is too old for the job since at least 2017. Sometime in 2020, conventional wisdom settled in: we need an old but sane white guy to beat an old batshit white guy. That wisdom bore fruit. But last night it was
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When it's worse than you think.
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Episode 11 - Convenience Leads to Fraud, Part 2... This Time With Solutions!
Why researchers need to rethink their sample and research ops partnerships Despite sample providers' and some researchers' desire to downplay the problem, online survey fraud is pervasive in market research, with increasingly sophisticated scammers exploiting convenience sample sources and programmatic sample buying to manipulate results. As the industry
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Episode 11 - Convenience Leads to Fraud, Part 2... This Time With Solutions!
Why researchers need to rethink their sample and research ops partnerships Despite sample providers' and some researchers' desire to downplay the problem, online survey fraud is pervasive in market research, with increasingly sophisticated scammers exploiting convenience sample sources and programmatic sample buying to manipulate results. As the industry
Episode 10 - Convenience Leads to Fraud, With Rich Ratcliff
Who are these bogus respondents really, and why do they do it? The multi-billion dollar online survey industry is fighting a constant threat of fraud, from individual survey hackers to sophisticated crime rings exploiting the system for profit. In our most recent episode, Rich Ratcliff, Chief Trust Officer at OpinionRoute,