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Representative samples are an issue for the pollsters – but so are respondents who lie

Whiteley, Paul and Clarke, Harold (2016) Representative samples are an issue for the pollsters – but so are respondents who lie. British Politics and Policy at LSE (25 Jan 2016). Website.

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Abstract

The British Polling Council recently published their report about what went wrong with the polls in the 2015 general election. The report dismissed problems associated with voter registration, question wording, postal voting and mode of interviewing and opted for unrepresentative samples as the key factor in explaining what happened. Here, Paul Whiteley and Harold Clarke make the case for examining another factor: respondents who don’t tell the truth.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information: © 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 23 Mar 2017 14:21
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2024 00:41
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/70454

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