New poll suggests…: how to tell when public opinion has really changed

Sturgis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1180-3493 and Kuha, Jouni ORCID: 0000-0002-1156-8465 (2018) New poll suggests…: how to tell when public opinion has really changed. Democratic Audit Blog (06 Jul 2018). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Every day we are being presented with new opinion polls on various social and political issues, but do these really represent public attitudes? Using a statistical method called bootstrapping to estimate sampling variance, Patrick Sturgis and Jouni Kuha explain how such an approach can improve the quality of debate about UK public opinion.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://www.democraticaudit.com/
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Authors
Divisions:	Statistics
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited:	08 Sep 2022 23:22
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2025 03:24
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109707

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