
How to read polls
13 Dec 2010
Forgot to mention this earlier – a article I wrote for Total Politics last month giving tips on the best way to get the most of opinion polls http://www.totalpolitics.com/magazine_detail.php?id=1127
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Good points AW, especially about taking into account all the polling on a given subject (different question wordings etc).
Btw, the sentence beginning “In contrast, anti-hunting campaigners would normally….”, it looks like it has acquired a glitch.
Yes, the title of the piece ended up in the middle of the sentence. Luckily the sense emerged anyway,
A good piece mine host. I’ll just crawl away now..
I printed off the article to pin above my desk at work. I understand the key point about using the Scottish or Welsh figures in UK polls as the numbers are small but isn’t there some reliance that can be put on a cumulative base using a number of sequential polls? Is there a formula or anything?