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Subject:	Survey methodology
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:47:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes: > When did the polling take place? > What group was polled – age/sex/ethnic background? > What order were the questioned asked in? > Was any supplemental information given? > How was the poll undertaken - telephone / face-to-face/via the web? > Were any other questions asked? > Who are the “polling experts at the University of Connecticut” – and was > their comment related to the poll? http://www.freedomforum.org/publications/first/sofa/2001/sofa2001.pdf (methodology section) is all the info I have. Seems like your fairly standard telephone survey, and they are not claiming huge accuracy, just the fairly typical (for this sample size) 95 confidence +/- 3% (for the entire group) results. Since this is a newspaper sponsored group, you'd think they have some familiarity with how to do these surveys... Their methodology seems very similar to that used by Gallup/Roper et al, with likely similarity in accuracy. As for your rebadging of the subject line, Scott... typical. ++Lar

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(...) Sorry, I did not see it when I read over the webpage the other day. None the less, I think that telephone surveys are not as good as the real thing. However, this is a moot point. (...) Hardly typical. Even if it was, it appears that I am not (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Survey methodology relating to latest LP SPAM
(...) Sorry, I did not see it when I read over the webpage the other day. None the less, I think that telephone surveys are not as good as the real thing. However, this is a moot point. (...) Hardly typical. Even if it was, it appears that I am not (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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