by Jeffrey Henning | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog
One of the “magic” techniques for improvement representativeness is sample matching. The easiest way to think of sample matching is that is quota sampling on steroids. Now you are not trying to fill a cell of 50 respondents who are women aged 55+; you are trying to...
by Jeffrey Henning | Oct 3, 2016 | tcheevers
I read this post by Ray Poynter and it started me thinking. For background, Ray is one of the first people that I followed when I came to the market research industry from a career in logistics and technology. I introduced myself at an ESOMAR conference and Ray was...
by Jeffrey Henning | Oct 2, 2016 | Blog, Consumer Surveys, MRX Surveys, Sports Surveys
In our survey of sports superstitions, we thought that respondents would be more willing to discuss other people’s superstitions than their own. In fact, the average answer was 13 words long when discussing others, compared to just 9 words long when discussing...
by Jeffrey Henning | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
Given that effective sample size declines dramatically when the characteristics of the sample don’t approximate national representativeness, one method of improving non-probability sampling is quota sampling, dividing the sample into cells and recruiting to fill those...
by Jeffrey Henning | Sep 26, 2016 | In the News
The amount of information, choice and technological opportunities that are available today make nearly everyone expect more. Customer expectations are rising faster and businesses need to stay up-to-date with customer expectations to respond accordingly. It’s no...
