Tracking Poll

Examples of Tracking Poll in the following topics:

• Types of Polls

  • The main types of polls are: opinion, benchmark, bushfire, entrance, exit, deliberative opinion, tracking, and the straw poll.
  • A benchmark poll is generally the first poll taken in a campaign.
  • Brushfire polls are polls taken during the period between the benchmark and tracking polls.
  • A tracking poll is a poll repeated at intervals generally averaged over a trailing window.
  • A weekly tracking poll uses the data from the past week and discards older data.

• The Gallup Organization

  • Gallup Inc. was founded in 1958, when George Gallup grouped all of his polling operations into one organization.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Historically, the Gallup Poll has measured and tracked the public's attitudes concerning virtually every political, social, and economic issue of the day, including highly sensitive or controversial subjects.
  • For the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Gallup was rated 17th out of 23 polling organizations in terms of the precision of its pre-election polls relative to the final results.
  • In 2008, Gallup interviewed no fewer than 1,000 U.S. adults each day, providing the most watched daily tracking poll of the race between John McCain and Barack Obama.Gallup also conducts 1,000 interviews per day, 350 days out of the year, among both landline and cell phones across the U.S. for its health and well-being survey.

• The Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is a public opinion poll that conducts surveys in 140 countries around the world.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Historically, the Gallup Poll has measured and tracked the public's attitudes concerning virtually every political, social, and economic issue of the day, including highly sensitive and controversial subjects.
  • 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.
  • Examine the pros and cons of the way in which the Gallup Poll is conducted

• A Closer Look at the Gallup Poll

  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability samples to try to accurately represent the attitudes and beliefs of a population.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of Gallup, Inc. that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Historically, the Gallup Poll has measured and tracked the public's attitudes concerning virtually every political, social, and economic issue of the day, including highly sensitive or controversial subjects.
  • The poll has been around since 1935.
  • The Gallup Poll is an opinion poll that uses probability sampling.

• Caveat Emptor and the Gallup Poll

  • Readers of polls, such as the Gallup Poll, should exercise Caveat Emptor by taking into account the poll's margin of error.
  • The Gallup Poll is the division of the Gallup Company that regularly conducts public opinion polls in more than 140 countries around the world.
  • Since inception, Gallup Polls have been used to measure and track public attitudes concerning a wide range of political, social, and economic issues (including highly sensitive or controversial subjects).
  • This principle can also be applied to the reading of polling information.
  • Readers should pay close attention to a poll's margin of error.

• Ethical Issues at an Individual Level

  • A 2007 opinion poll by Harris Interactive of 1741 U.S. employees found that 73% of respondents said it was "important that your employer be environmentally and socially responsible."
  • A 2005 poll by The Guardian newspaper of 2000 undergraduates in the United Kingdom found that "over 70% of students said that a company's ethical track record is a crucial factor when choosing their employer. "
  • A 2005 poll by High Fliers Research of 6,227 final year students from Australian and New Zealand universities found that 40% said it was "very important" that their first employer be socially responsible, and 30% said it was "very important" that their first employer be environmentally responsible.
  • A 2009 poll of Australian non-profit organizations by EthicalJobs.com.au found that 87% of employers surveyed said that job seekers were more likely to apply for a position seen to be ethical.

• Polls Versus Votes

  • These are really polls rather than votes, but the developers may choose to treat the result as binding.
  • As with any poll, be sure to make it clear to the participants that there's a write-in option: if someone thinks of a better option not offered in the poll questions, her response may turn out to be the most important result of the poll.

• Tracking Systems

  • Since low-class and minority students are overrepresented in low tracks with Whites and Asians generally dominating high tracks, interaction among these groups can be discouraged by tracking.
  • Thus, traditionally, students were tracked into academic, general, and vocational tracks.
  • Instead, many secondary schools now base track levels on course difficulty, with tracks such as basic, honors, or college-prep.
  • Lessons taught in low-track classes often lack the engagement and comprehensiveness of the high-track lessons, putting low-track students at a disadvantage for college because they do not gain the knowledge and skills of the upper-track students.
  • Tracking can also result in a stigmatization of low-track students.

• Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

  • The first known example of an opinion poll was an 1824 local straw poll by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian for the Jackson Adams race.
  • The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw poll conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency.
  • The Literary Digest soon went out of business, while polling started to take off.
  • Elmo Roper was another American pioneer in political forecasting using scientific polls.
  • By the 1950s, various types of polling had spread to most democracies.

• The "Noisy Minority" Effect

  • It's a bit like a filibuster, except that the illusion of widespread dissent is even more powerful, because it's divided across an arbitrary number of discrete posts and most people won't bother to keep track of who said what, when.
  • In order to increase the disparity, you may want to privately poll people who have been mostly silent, but who you suspect would agree with the majority.