The second is that
poll organizations do not simply interview people, get the mean value and publish it as their predictions.
Another survey
by polling organization ComRes showed both parties running neck and neck, with 33 percent votes each.
I have long suspected that while they make a very reasonable effort not to be guilty of any confirmation bias, there is an inherent respondent - based bias toward people of faith and a bias toward self - identified declaration of affilliation of faith in surveys by
polling organizations like Pew, PRRI and Gallup.
For the past thirty years, all three
leading polling organizations have consistently told us that a large majority of Americans, women even more than men, disapprove of the majority of abortions that are performed in this country.
Although there was some variation among the aggregators about Hillary Clinton's chances for victory (Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight consistently produced the most conservative estimates whereas the Huffington Post and the Princeton Election Consortium consistently produced the highest chances), the
major polling organizations overwhelmingly predicted that she would win — and they got it terribly wrong.
Finally, Moe criticizes all
other polling organizations because their voucher questions «fail to convey the central purpose of a voucher program.»
The survey, conducted by
the polling organization ComRes for the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), showed 73 percent favor her remaining as the church's «Supreme Governor» and «Defender of the Faith».
The sampling and data collection were handled by the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago, a national
polling organization.
Both individuals need to fight the battle with the voter, not
the polling organization.
Much of the difference can be explained in the varied methodologies of
the polling organizations.
Given the range of possibilities
each poll organization can utilize, it may be more surprising that poll results are often similar and not all over the map as recently occurred in the New York governor's race.
The polling organization Gallup has reported that people do not quit jobs; they quit bosses (Harter, 2016).
Last, to capture aspects of on - the - job life that aren't picked up by official statistics, we turned to Gallup,
the polling organization, which asks people across the country about their work conditions as part of its Well - Being index and publishes the results as a «work environment» ranking of states.
The Gallup
polling organization has come out with its annual survey on environmental issues and marks some noteworthy trends, including rising concerns about how news accounts have portrayed the issue: