A Journalist's Guide to Public Opinion Polls

Sheldon R. Gawiser,G. Evans Witt

A Journalist's Guide to Public Opinion Polls
Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Published
21 October 1994
Pages
192
ISBN
9780275947224

A Journalist’s Guide to Public Opinion Polls

Sheldon R. Gawiser,G. Evans Witt

This straightforward text provides journalists, both professional and student, with an explanation of the realities of an increasingly important facet of today’s precision journalism–public opinion polling. The work aims to provide the skills necessary for evaluating and interpreting survey results accurately. After a brief review of the historical relationship between the press and public opinion, the authors examine the polling environment today. Then, step-by-step, they take the reader through the basics of journalistic uses of public opinion surveys and the questions to be asked by the journalist in evaluating a survey: who did the poll; who sponsored the poll; what were the survey questions and how were they worded; what is the sampling error; how to report poll results; how to put survey figures in context; and how to make and evaluate projections based upon polls. In addition, the text offers a review of statistical methods for the journalist and a 20 question checklist.

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