[EL] Push polling

[Michael P McDonald]

Here is the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers statement on push polling. As you may surmise, the professional organization of pollsters believes that push polling is unethical:

http://www.aapor.org/AAPOR_Statements_on_Push_Polls1.htm 

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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Jon Roland
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 11:24 AM
To: law-election at department-lists.uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Push polling

There is a use for push-polls on this and other subjects, but your questions, as stated, are very poorly designed for a push poll. Each question should be very simple, avoid vague abstraction, and not require any knowledge the the one polled does not already have. Each question should, however, step by step, lead to a conclusion you want him or her to reach, that may be somewhat unexpected on the part of the one polled. It mostly should involve putting together lesser ideas the one polled already has, into a more comprehensive, coherent concept the one polled has not yet thought through.

If anyone seriously wants to do a push poll of some kind, you might want to consult with me on the design.

On 05/01/2013 03:19 PM, Smith, Brad wrote: 
I'm thinking of doing my own push poll on money in politics.



-- Jon

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