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An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll (although strictly a poll is an actual election), is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or ...
According to Blumer, public opinion is discussed as a form of collective behavior (another specialized term) which is made up of those who are discussing a given public issue at any one time. Given this definition, there are many publics; each of them comes into being when an issue arises and ceases to exist when the issue is resolved.
Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds. Public Opinion, 1935–1946 Archived July 28, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, massive compilation of many public opinion polls from US, UK, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere. online; Converse, Jean M. Survey Research in the United States: Roots and Emergence 1890–1960 (1987), the standard history
As I note in Lost in a Gallup, my book about polling failure in presidential elections, pre-election polls are central to how journalists, and Americans at large, understand the dynamics of ...
Psephology uses historical precinct voting data, public opinion polls, campaign finance information and similar statistical data. The term was coined in 1948 by W. F. R. Hardie (1902–1990) in the United Kingdom after R. B. McCallum, a friend of Hardie's, requested a word to describe the study of elections. Its first documented usage in ...
The unfortunate reality is that polls that show the most dramatic numbers in terms of candidates’ winning and losing often draw the most media response. It is therefore especially critical to subject such polls to rigorous examination. Public polls differ on whether they release their likely voter screens, sample frames,
Gallup was the first polling organization to conduct accurate opinion polling for United States presidential elections. [1] [2] Gallup polling has often been accurate in predicting the outcome of presidential elections and the margin of victory for the winner. [3]
Douglas E. Schoen and Carly Cooperman are pollsters and partners with the public opinion company Schoen Cooperman Research based in New York. They are co-authors of the book, “America: Unite or Die.