Harvard University Program on Survey Research

External Link: On October 7, the New York and New Jersey chapters of AAPOR co-sponsored a panel discussion on state polling for the 2008 presidential election. The panel included Christopher Achen, Associate Chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton University; Larry Hugick, Chairman of Princeton Survey Research Associates International; Andrew Gelman from the Departments of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University; and Joe Lenski, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Edison Media Research.

Thomas Guterbock summed things up nicely at the recent “New Technologies and Survey Research” conference held by the Program on Survey Research at Harvard University.

Pre-election polls are one of the most visible types of surveys in the news, at least around election time. Interested in better understanding the political polls this year? Here are some on-line resources to help guide you through sorting through the good and the bad.