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Bad Advice
"Embrace uncertainty" versus the decimal place
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Bad Advice
"Embrace uncertainty" versus the decimal place Great advice for readers from Lakshya Jain from SplitTicket, whom I interviewed Friday for a forthcoming episode of Cross Tabs: “Embrace uncertainty.” I think that’s right, but it’s funny coming from folks who aren’t, in fact, embracing uncertainty1 — they’
Friday Polls: What's new, who's the Veep, and what's next
Let's talk about the changing shape of the electorate, what a favorability score is anyway and how that effects the Democratic veepstakes... plus links
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Friday Polls: What's new, who's the Veep, and what's next
Let's talk about the changing shape of the electorate, what a favorability score is anyway and how that effects the Democratic veepstakes... plus links Three things today: 1. How things have changed (so far) since June. 2. What are favorability numbers, anyway, and what do they have to
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
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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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