Key Recommendations for Online Sampling
Probability sampling remains the gold standard for producing results that are representative of target populations. So much so that non-probability...
Intercept Surveys
Where river sampling is typically a supplemental source of responses to panel surveys, intercept surveys gather all their responses by interrupting...
River Sampling
People who are willing to be members of panels differ in many ways from people who aren’t. This too lessens the representativeness of panel...
Sample Matching
One of the “magic” techniques for improvement representativeness is sample matching. The easiest way to think of sample matching is that is quota...
Sports Superstitions: Silly Superstitions of Others
In our survey of sports superstitions, we thought that respondents would be more willing to discuss other people's superstitions than their own. In...
Quota Sampling
Given that effective sample size declines dramatically when the characteristics of the sample don’t approximate national representativeness, one...
Sports Superstitions: Classification
We classified all respondents to our Sports Superstitions study as either "Unsuperstitious" or "Superstitious." A respondent had to answer "Not at...
Sports Superstitions: Down the Rabbit Hole
We asked every respondent to rate their level of fear about how their actions at home might affect the team they are rooting for: while 21% of...
Convenience Sampling: A Technique for Surveying Low-Incidence Populations
Convenience sampling is almost the exact opposite of probability sampling: there is no sampling frame, there is no external random selection -...
Sport Superstitions: Wearing Team Colors
With the 2016-17 NFL season scheduled to start tonight, we thought we'd remind you to do your laundry - make sure your lucky jersey is ready! We...
Probability Online Panels
A probability online panel selects candidates for participation through a probability sample (typically using Address Based Sampling) and then...
Sports Superstitions: Helping Your Team Win
As part of an ongoing series of research into how consumers engage and identify with brands, Researchscape International surveyed 1,112 U.S. adults...