by Jeffrey Henning | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog
For representative results, it is more important that sampling be well designed than that there be thousands of responses. Unfortunately, this is a distinction that most reporters ignore and that many researchers, in the interest of minimizing costs, obscure....
by Jeffrey Henning | Dec 15, 2016 | Blog, Consumer Surveys, In the News, MRX Surveys, Sports Surveys
Just over one third of respondents (35%) are very or completely satisfied with the National Football League, while a quarter (24%) are not at all satisfied or only slightly satisfied. Comments as to why fans are or aren’t satisfied with the NFL: “After...
by Jeffrey Henning | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog
The typical survey reported in the 2016 corpus of news releases has 1,000 respondents (median size), with 73% having 500 or more responses, 55% having 1,000 or more responses, and 35% having 2,000 or more responses. The smallest sample size was 98 responses. The more...
by Jeffrey Henning | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog
Writing a questionnaire for a newsmaker survey is different than designing a customer satisfaction or general market research survey. Such general surveys are often academic, clinical, even boring: in contrast, with a newsmaker survey you are looking for punch and...
by Jeffrey Henning | Dec 5, 2016 | Blog
I’m old enough to remember typing pools – though not old enough to remember when the secretaries in them were using typewriters. They were using word processors – not software like Microsoft Word but hardware like the Wang OIS, a dedicated system for timeshared word...
by Jeffrey Henning | Oct 25, 2016 | Blog
Probability sampling remains the gold standard for producing results that are representative of target populations. So much so that non-probability methods typically try to emulate or mimic probability sampling where possible: Positioning a panel survey as a random...
