by jenkinsresearch | Jul 11, 2016 | Canadian Public Poll Analysis, Industry News and Trends, Public Opinion
Poll sponsorship is very intriguing but a look at the database of public opinion poll releases finds a significant number of polls where no sponsor is explicitly identified. Almost a quarter of releases (28%) were sponsored by a non-media sponsor while another 23%...
by jenkinsresearch | Jul 5, 2016 | Canadian Public Poll Analysis, Industry News and Trends, Public Opinion
The overall volume is stunning. More than 2.7 polls per day are released in Canada. A plurality of these polls are national in terms of their data collection such that 43 national polls were released in June of this year; 1.4 polls per day. 1.4 unique poll releases...
by Richard Jenkins | Sep 8, 2012 | Elections, Industry News and Trends, Public Opinion
Just this week, we got another pseudo apologetic letter about why election polling is sometimes (perhaps even often) inaccurate. This time it was from Peter Loewen (an Assistant Professor of UofT). His article in the Ottawa Citizen is here but, it like many similiar...
by Richard Jenkins | Mar 1, 2012 | Industry News and Trends
Robots do wonderful things. They dispose of bombs and take care of other dangerous things us mortals would rather not do. They also vacuum your home if you have a roomba. All well and good unless they are calling your house! The recent controversy in Canada over the...
by Richard Jenkins | Dec 30, 2011 | Industry News and Trends
While the industry remains largely healthy in Canada, it is under considerable pressure to define and enforce standards. What is now playing out (partially, in the press) reflects the fundamental tension evident in new ways of doing things as well as the difficulty of...
by Richard Jenkins | Dec 13, 2011 | Industry News and Trends, Survey methodology
As a society we value norms — how is something compared with the “normal”. School starts it off but throughout our lives we seem to find ways to comparing ourselves to some normal. Even online we have developed measures of how we are doing relative...
