by Jeffrey Henning | May 19, 2013 | Blog
The TICC (Transparency Initiative Coordinating Committee) is addressing the issue that there is not enough transparency in the social, behavioral and marketing sciences. Openness is fundamental to scientific inquiry, so the transparency initiative’s goal is to...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 18, 2013 | Blog
Scott Keeter of Pew Research Center discussed Pew’s experiments with Google Consumer Surveys at the AAPOR annual conference in Boston today. While Pew Research remains committed to rigorous, probabily-based sampling for all major work, Scott took pains to point...
by Jeffrey Henning | May 17, 2013 | Blog
Jenny Marlar of The Gallup Organization moderated this AAPOR Annual Conference session today on sampling and data quality concerns for online surveys. The Performance of Different Calibration Models in Non-Probability Online Surveys Julia Clark and Neale El-Dash of...
by Jeffrey Henning | Apr 17, 2013 | Blog
Consumers are increasingly multitasking while watching TV, integrating “second screens” into their viewing experience, argues the global management consultancy Accenture, based on results of a new survey. Multitasking in front of the TV used to be about reading. Now...
by Jeffrey Henning | Apr 16, 2013 | Blog
In a study on TV watching, Accenture asked timely questions about the Netflix original series, House of Cards – though an errant skip pattern makes interpreting the results harder than usual. What was special about House of Cards is that, in a first, the entire season...
by Jeffrey Henning | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog
April 15 is the day U.S. taxpayers are required to file their federal income tax returns. What does recent research from pollsters and market researchers tell us about the attitudes of American consumers towards taxes? Pew Research hits us with the surprising news...
