Sentences with phrase «of an opinion poll»

In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.

At the moment, he says «sensational reporting of opinion polls» clouds the issue.

A summary of opinion polling published in the Australian edition of The Week suggests that Aussies are, well, distinctive.

«I suppose you could use that as one sort of opinion poll as to where residents want their money spent.»

It is interesting that Kedourie was responding to the results of an opinion poll which showed that the majority of Egyptians supported democracy, but also demanded the implementation of Shari'a (Islamic) law.

The results of the local and European elections look set to go to the wire, with the last batch of opinion polls putting Labour and Ukip neck - and - neck

Attention has been directed to the rise of focus groups, the use of opinion polling and message testing.

That message was an attempt to tap into the politics of hope and change that proved so effective in the US for Obama, and it briefly helped Clegg surge to the top of the opinion polls.

A series of opinion polls have hinted at a resurgent Labour performance in the general election.

The End Child Poverty coalition has just released the results of an opinion poll that shows 82 per cent of British people think that tackling child poverty should be a government priority.

How this model works: As with my analyses of opinion poll figures in Ireland, constituency support estimates for different parties and groupings form the basis of the general approach taken with this analysis.

«If he [Mr Brown] wants to defend that [42 days] he should put someone up against me and on the basis of the opinion polls he should at least be able to dent my majority if not defeat me,» Mr Davis argued.

We are concerned that you, a renowned child protection agency, are presenting the findings of an opinion poll as a serious piece of research.

The reality, as most of the opinion polls will tell us, is there's not actually that much of a substantial difference between Scotland and England.»

[124] Some of the opinion polls had shown a 20 - point Conservative lead over Labour before the election was called, but this lead had narrowed by the day of the 2017 general election, which resulted in a hung parliament.

This seems to be on the back of opinion polls which may not have changed if you allow for their inbuilt margin of error and which certainly ignore the fact that Northern marginal seats are running ahead of the national figures.

As the following graph of opinion poll trends during the 2010 campaign shows, so - called «Cleggmania» peaked immediately after the first debate, when he did most to introduce himself to most voters: his poll ratings, and his party's, surged, while both the Conservatives and Labour fell.

Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green asked about the use of opinion polls and focus groups:

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Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti last night played down the significance of opinion polls, which she said had failed to predict Brexit or Donald Trump's victory.

It's easy to blame the opinion pollsters for this, but this was a failure of journalism as much as a failure of opinion polling.

Instead of opinion polling, Norpoth relies on statistics from candidates» performances in party primaries and patterns in the electoral cycle to forecast results.

Against the background of opinion polls pointing to a Labour landslide, in a week he transformed the political weather, forcing Brown to back down at the eleventh hour.

The Conservatives were sailing more than 20 % ahead of the Labour party in a number of opinion polls, and most expected them to be swept back into power with a hefty majority.

Anthony Wells of UK Polling Report has always cautioned me to be weary of opinion polls which are conducted over bank holiday weekends but we have a poll from ITV's London Tonight, the Evening Standard and LBC radio which has Boris 4 % ahead of Ken Livingstone after voters» second preferences have been accounted for.

At the start of the campaign for the 2007 Scottish Parliament election, Labour were behind the Scottish National Party (SNP) in most of the opinion polls.

Cameron accused Brown of «bottling» the election because of opinion polls, which Brown denied.

Speaking on Monday, Clegg insisted that he wants to lead the Lib Dems until at least 2020 as he brushed off the bad set of opinion polls and predictions of a wipeout at next month's European elections.

This paper reported the results of an opinion poll which sought the public's views on various categories of migrant and whether they should be reduced (or increased).

The teaching of evolution is a big issue in the USA — the PollingReport.com archive has whole pages of opinion polls on evolution.

«I am not surprised by the result of this opinion poll,» Mr Campbell said.

With Kenya's presidential election drawing near, campaigns here are for the first time making widespread use of opinion polls, text messaging, teleprompters, spin doctors, $ 15,000 - a-plate fundraisers and even high - powered foreign political consultants such as Dick Morris, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, who swooped in for a few days to counsel opposition candidate Raila Odinga.

The headline spin from The Sunday Times, however, is that the Tories are back to the same kind of opinion poll lead that they had at the very start of David Cameron's leadership.

But despite the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury's optimism, analysis of opinion polls since Mr Corbyn became leader show Labour is, on average, 11 points behind the Tories.

He added: «The potential share of the Conservative vote sitting in the Ukip column of opinion polls should give us cause for real concern.»

All of the opinion polls consistently show that Labour under Jeremy's leadership is well behind a divisive and unpopular Conservative government.

However, Britain's success in the conflict saw Margaret Thatcher and her Tory government surge back to the top of the opinion polls, and her position was strengthened further by the end of the year as the recession ended and more voters had faith in her economic policies.

In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.

Hi Heiko, I realize the limited use of opinion polls, though with that caveat, I thought this Doran and Zimmerman survey was amongst the better ones.

Similar argument on the usefulness of opinion polls.

Citing published scientific literature in support of a scientific proposition is neither argumentum ad populam nor argumentum ad numeram, you can't just reduce it to the status of an opinion poll.

As to your suggestion that I re-do the «study», I find the whole point of the study to be political in nature, trying to prove a scientific point by some kind of opinion poll and then bragging all over the press that your opinions are right because you claim to have lots & lots of people on your side.

The recent poor performance of opinion polls in both the UK's referendum on remaining in the European Union («Brexit») and the US Presidential election left me wondering what they tell us about our dependence on data analytics?

Swelly has enjoyed growth on Messenger, Buchroithner said, because in addition to there being no need to download a bot, when you share the bot with a friend inside Messenger, one tap of the opinion poll or Swelly icon puts them in a chat window with Swelly bot in order to answer their friend's question about which dress or pair of shoes to wear.

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Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

Performed online in January and February, the poll seeks opinions on aspects of a company's reputation ranging from product quality to governance, citizenship and workplace culture, among others.

Opinion polls suggest a majority of voters will opt to stay, but the post-referendum negotiations between the U.K. government and the E.U. could still sour market sentiment.

The Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, which has been conducted since 1999, is among the most expansive surveys of consumer opinions about companies.

Some studies (and opinions) suggest that brand loyalty is a concept that's dying; for example, 79 percent of the millennials polled in one survey ranked quality as their most important purchasing decision, rather than the name brand involved.

In 1936, a magazine called The Literary Digest ran one of the biggest opinion polls of all time.