Social Media Ideas for Survey Research

Survey Statistics: Pew Research finds “No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls”

I just read the Pew Research Center’s new report “No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls”. It begins: One of the most urgent problems in online opt-in polling is...

150 statistical questions for students and research projects

Statistical questions help people investigate patterns rather than look for one fixed answer. Each question anticipates variability: Different people, objects, events, or measureme...

Survey Said…

The latest Indy Politics Informal Ask  surveyis closed, and the results show a readership that remains largely Republican in its voting intentions while giving low ...

Survey Statistics: poststratification without population level information

Poststratification uses population data on X to estimate E(Y) via E(E(Y | X, R = 1)), where R = 1 are survey respondents who provide Y and X. When the inner expectation “E” is esti...

Enterprise Survey Best Practices Built for Scale

TL;DR Enterprise survey best practices are different from standard ones because scale changes the failure modes. What works for 500 respondents breaks at 500,000. The first d...

Psyche! Pollster Claims Socialist-Promoting Results Were a ‘Social Experiment'

How to create a survey in Outlook email in {! YEAR !}

Collecting input is a constant inevitability of office life, and if you work with a remote team, online surveys are an easy way to collect this information. If you’re a Microsoft O...

Survey Statistics: quantifying uncertainty in ranked choice voting polls

We’ve talked about uncertainty in polls (see Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error, Total Margin of Error II) and we’ve talked about ranked data (see exploded logit !). A new pape...

Survey Statistics: more on SynthMargins and Bayes-Raking

Last week we discussed SynthMargins, a method from the poster Modeling Complex Contingency Tables that uses partial information (margins) about poststratification variables. On the...