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Title HUFFPOLLSTER: Pollsters Debate If Modern Surveys Can Be Trusted
Source The Huffington Post, 25.09.2015
Year 2015
Database ProQuest
Access date 06.10.2015
Abstract

Survey response rates have hit all-time lows, yet telephone pollsters argue their samples can still be representative and accurate. Online pollsters, whose methods don't include starting by selecting respondents at random, argue their methods produce reliable results.

A panel of experts convened at survey conference in Baltimore on Tuesday tackled these issues and more in a wide ranging discussion of the future of election polling that included an exchange at the heart of the debate over what makes a poll "scientific."  

 

Year of publication2015
Bibliographic typeNewspaper article
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