What You Think You Know About The Polls Isn’t Necessarily True
Once again, it seems necessary to debunk some commonly believed myths about polling.
Once again, it seems necessary to debunk some commonly believed myths about polling.
The response rates for opinion polling of all types has become incredibly low.
The combination of falling oil prices and increased exports has the US trade deficit at its lowest point since December 2010.
The Romney campaign has hurt the press corps’ feelings.
The price of a DC cab ride went up big time recently and neither riders nor cabbies are happy.
Proving yet again that the plural of anecdote is not data.
New head-scratching revelations in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case.
A new patent granted to Apple raises once again the question of how far patent protections should extend.
California’s Governor has vetoed a bill that would have reversed a very misguided decision by that state’s Supreme Court.
In its upcoming term, the Supreme Court will examine the question whether police can track people via GPS without first obtaining a warrant.
What we think the ideal society looks like depends a lot on what kind of society we live in.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wants to install devices in cars to disable cell phones.
Rasmussen’s sample is biased because they’re polling on the cheap — using robocalls, which by law can’t dial cell phones, and otherwise cutting corners — rather than because of some agenda to propagandize for the GOP. The end result, however, is the same: Polls that can’t be trusted.
Rasmussen polls were biased toward Republicans by 3 to 4 points. Rigged results? Or screening error?
The growing number of cell-phone-only households gives Democrats hope that the polls are undercounting them.
Has modern life robbed America’s youth of their ability to think? Or simply caused them to think in different ways about different things?
A new study suggests that laws banning texting while driving don’t actually have any impact on accident rates.