Data in Decline: Why Polling and Social Research Miss the Mark Contributor(s): Wood, Steve a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1732889708 ISBN-13: 9781732889705 Publisher: Steve Wood OUR PRICE: $9.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.69 lbs) 230 pages |
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Publisher Description: You may have noticed that a lot of opinion polls aren't very reliable. For a long time this wasn't so true, and pollsters have been coasting on former reputations of accuracy, but it's getting much harder for them to do so. Conditions used to be such that polls could largely compensate for many of the issues that plague the social sciences. Polling firms built business models which assumed these conditions as given. However, since the dawn of the new millennium, those assumptions have been breaking down, imperiling the industry. Data in Decline explains:
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