Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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"...rethink your totally uninformed statement..."


A poll's methodology -- including the sample size, method of selection and phrasing of questions -- is crucial. The Daily Kos survey, for example, used random digit dialing to reach California adults. To identify them as "likely voters," pollsters asked respondents several questions, including whether they considered themselves Democrats or Republicans. But identifying 600 likely voters didn't provide the number of Democrats and Republicans statistically necessary to measure the primaries, so pollsters called more people until they had 400 self-identified Republicans and 400 self-identified Democrats. Then, as they put it, "quotas were assigned to reflect the voter registration of distribution by county."

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/31/opinion/oe-robertstrounstine31



I stand by my "totally uninformed" statement/opinion/view.