USA Today | Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (2024)

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Is Gallup data reliable? ›

Today, The Gallup Poll continues to be a reliable source of intelligence for a changing world. Our data often answer the questions that are “top of mind” with leaders around the globe. Through its offices worldwide, Gallup measures public opinion and attitudes on virtually every political, social, and economic issue.

In polling, N refers to the number of respondents.

A benchmark poll is generally the first poll taken in a campaign. It is often taken before a candidate announces their bid for office, but sometimes it happens immediately following that announcement after they have had some opportunity to raise funds.

Polls ask the public for opinions about a specific issue, which often relates to politics or current events. They're simpler and quicker to conduct. Surveys have a wider range of applications. They're used for market research, collecting feedback from customers, askinh employees for opinions, etc.

Poll analyst Nate Silver found that Gallup's results were the least accurate of the 23 major polling firms Silver analyzed, having the highest incorrect average of being 7.2 points away from the final result. Following the results of the election, Gallup spent six months reviewing its methodology.

No peer review process – as with most proprietary commercial research, Gallup's data and analysis are not scrutinized by any external 'peer review' process.

The National Front (NF) is a fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Tony Martin.

A caucus is a meeting or grouping of supporters or members of a specific political party or movement.

US Speaks is a research organization which interviews Americans over text message. We know that it can be inconvenient to answer a phone call from an unknown number when you are in the middle of a busy day.

A poll aggregator is an entity that tracks and aggregates, often but not exclusively by averaging, individual polls conducted by different organizations in order to gauge public sentiment on key civic issues such as the approval rating of a major political figure (e.g., president, prime minister, monarch, governor, ...

What does my benchmark score mean? ›

Benchmarks allow for easy comparison between multiple CPUs by scoring their performance on a standardized series of tests, and they are useful in many instances: When buying or building a new PC. Use benchmark scores to gauge a system's ability to run games and applications before making a purchase.

A straw poll, straw vote, or straw ballot is an ad hoc or unofficial vote. It is used to show the popular opinion on a certain matter, and can be used to help politicians know the majority opinion and help them decide what to say in order to gain votes. Straw polls provide dialogue among movements within large groups.

Participation bias or non-response bias is a phenomenon in which the results of elections, studies, polls, etc. become non-representative because the participants disproportionately possess certain traits which affect the outcome.

What kind of research is a survey? A survey can be qualitative, quantitative or mix methods. If your survey involves a questionnaire with scalable answers then it is a quantitative survey. If your survey has descriptive questions with in-depth answers then it is a qualitative survey.

Data for Progress's results have been on the more accurate side among its peers, though it relies entirely on so-called nonprobability methods [that] haven't gained full acceptance as an industry standard for political polls, at least not yet.

It gauged Americans' opinions and perceptions of the most pressing political and economic issues and the current events that affected the world, the U.S. and their lives. Gallup routinely incorporated additional questions into the Gallup U.S. Poll on a short-term basis.

The Gallup World Poll tracks the most important issues worldwide, such as food access, employment, leadership performance, and well-being. Since creating the World Poll in 2005, Gallup has conducted studies in more than 160 countries that include 99% of the world's adult population.

Gallup Analytics is a subscription-based platform that houses more than a decade of international public opinion data from more than 160 countries and areas and nearly a century of U.S. national data.