Opinion poll reporting: who did it best this year?
Since the start of the year, I have been tracking how newspapers do at reporting the political opinion polls they commission. … Read the full post »
Posts featuring the polling expert Anthony Wells, who first made his polling reputation running the excellent UK Polling Report website until its closure in 2021. He went on to work for pollsters YouGov.
Since the start of the year, I have been tracking how newspapers do at reporting the political opinion polls they commission. … Read the full post »
A quick explanation for people who are new to pouring over the details of polls and, as several people have commented, are confused by the conflicting figures given for whether a party is up or down. … Read the full post »
We’ve had two consecutive days of rolling poll results from ComRes which are significantly out of line with all the other polling being conducted. … Read the full post »
The Facebook group We got Rage Against the Machine to #1, we can get the Lib Dems into office! continues to grow at a remarkable pace. … Read the full post »
Clifford Stoll’s main mistake was – at least with the advantage of hindsight – to take problems with the internet and not then seek out parallels in the non-internet world to see how people had already tackled such issues. … Read the full post »
As I blogged last month, I’m starting to rate the quality of the media’s coverage of opinion polls, which is often far from perfect. … Read the full post »
The quality of traditional media coverage of political opinion polling has been a common cause of complaints amongst political bloggers. The most obvious problem is when an opinion poll from one polling company is compared not with the previous poll from that company but against an older one. … Read the full post »
I’m an academic by training, and completed a PhD, though my career has since taken me in other directions, away from 19th century British electoral history and towards participating in 20th and 21st century British elections instead. … Read the full post »
YouGov’s now annual mammoth marginals poll is out. It’s heavily talked about elsewhere, so here are a few extracts that are likely to be of particular interest. … Read the full post »
Both here and on Lib Dem Voice, I don’t usually do individual polls, relying instead on Stephen’s monthly round-ups for LDV. But I do make exceptions when there’s something particularly striking. … Read the full post »