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Research Lifestreaming
Harris (click to embiggen): I’m fascinated, but I think the universe might collapse in on itself in some sort of divide-by-zero error if I were to sign up with @researchrants. In any case, I want to...
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LA Times: What the What?
So for a couple of weeks now, I’ve been getting emails from the Los Angeles Times about how my email newsletter subscriptions are about to end. I’ve been ignoring them, because I don’t think I actually...
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Obscure AND Potentially Personally Identifying? Let’s Ask It!
Sent in by a reader; click to embiggen: Bad enough they’re asking for something few people would know offhand — and who wants to go fetch a piece of mail to get the answer — but I think there’s an...
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Feeling the Urge…
I’m feeling the urge to get back at this. Going to try to sit through some Toluna research today, see if it’s any better than the last time I looked, and then report back with some dire pronouncements...
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(Nit)Picking on Harris
So, I dipped by toe back in to web research this morning. Since I generally have decent experiences with Harris polls, I decided to give them a shot. As usual with them, it was a fairly painless...
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Taking a Hatchet to Your Matrix
Not a newsflash: I hate matrixes. That being said, I acknowledge they’re sometimes going to be necessary. If you’ve got to use one, though, I think it’s in everyone’s interest to keep each one as small...
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Databases Are Your Friend!
I’ve ranted about this so many times that it’s a true pleasure to see it being done the right way by YouGov/Polling Point here: (obviously, I blanked out the zip code.) Compare and contrast with other...
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For Better or For Worse, Twitter.
Honestly, I don’t know if it’s a good thing that the vast majority of my thoughts come in little snippets no longer than 140 characters at a time, but it seems to be the case. I can’t promise every one...
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Yet Another Example of How Not To Use The Internet To Conduct Research
(edit, April 6, 2011: Over a year since I posted this, and I just took another Zogby poll (now an “Ibope Zogby poll,” by the way), and they’re still asking this question the same way. And I still,...
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Fun With Crosstabs
A couple of thought’s on PPP’s bombshell last week about interracial marriage in Mississippi, which, if you missed it, said that 46% of “usual Republican Primary voters” there say interracial marriage...
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