January 5, 2012
Polling terminology
We’ve commented before on the annoying tendency of newspapers to claim that self-selected website polls actually mean something. The media usually refers to the results as coming from “an unscientific poll”, but a better term would be “a bogus poll”. In the interests of openness, democracy, and giving you something to do over summer, we are conducting a bogus poll ourselves, to find out which terminology is better.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
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[...] claim that self-selected website polls actually mean something,” Prof. Thomas Lumley wrote in a January post. “The media usually refers to the results as coming from an ‘unscientific poll’, but a better [...]
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[...] claim that self-selected website polls actually mean something,” Prof. Thomas Lumley wrote in a January post. “The media usually refers to the results as coming from an ‘unscientific poll’, but a [...]
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[...] claim that self-selected website polls actually mean something,” Prof. Thomas Lumley wrote in a January post. “The media usually refers to the results as coming from an ‘unscientific poll’, but a [...]
437 days ago