Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results, especially for young people and Hispanic adults
We examine how an opt-in poll may have unintentionally misled the public about the sensitive issue of Holocaust denial among young Americans.
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1. Americans’ experiences with virtual religious services
Roughly a quarter of U.S. adults (27%) regularly watch religious services online or on TV, while a third regularly attend services in person, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in November 2022. The survey took place as the coronavirus pandemic was winding down but before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared […]
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2. Assessing the accuracy of estimates among demographic subgroups
The accuracy of general population estimates is only one facet of data quality for online samples. Frequently, survey researchers also want to understand the similarities and differences between subgroups within the population. For probability-based panels recruited using ABS, obtaining a sufficiently large sample of respondents belonging to small subgroups can be particularly costly, and one […]
