tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post4921594350177465340..comments2024-03-26T14:01:36.240-05:00Comments on Public Policy Polling: NC Sports PollTom Jensenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06545052616714485196noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-82553600332132059822008-07-23T18:42:00.000-05:002008-07-23T18:42:00.000-05:00North Carolina has 8.9 million people. A polling ...North Carolina has 8.9 million people. A polling sample of 500 represents less than one one hundredth of one percent of the population. I wouldn't say that this can be deemed reliable in any way. <BR/>The survey doesn't indicate how many people answered the whole survey without hanging up. It doesn't indicate how the respondants were selected. It doesn't suggest that there were any dummy questions to ensure that the respondant was paying attention or answering seriously. It doesn't even say whether the respondants were given the "no preference/I don't care about sports" option. <BR/><BR/>I agree with the others that there should have been more options with the college teams. They might have even (gasp) found similar results if they had asked "did you know that Duke has a football team" or "In what city is Wake Forest?"d-leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15772585727501344436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-43240809690946442212008-07-23T08:59:00.000-05:002008-07-23T08:59:00.000-05:00Worst poll I've ever seen. You can't compare betw...Worst poll I've ever seen. You can't compare between pro sports and college sports and then not include all colleges in the state. Leaving out NC State, ECU, and Wake doesn't help one bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-46169262779948474422008-07-18T09:37:00.000-05:002008-07-18T09:37:00.000-05:00I am just curious, but why no description of metho...I am just curious, but why no description of methodology that was used? How the participants in survey were selected? What was the margin of error?<BR/>Did your summer intern just picked up the phone, called random people all over North Carolina and than just tabulated the data?<BR/>Strange way of gathering information and providing results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799451770086337664.post-62262185519635890942008-07-17T20:20:00.000-05:002008-07-17T20:20:00.000-05:00Very odd survey...1) The questioning is all over t...Very odd survey...<BR/><BR/>1) The questioning is all over the place..<BR/>2) 82% knew that the state had a pro hockey team. this is fantastic!!!!! I don't find this surprising at all..<BR/>3) they should have stuck to pro sports for the survey for it to be a good comparison across the sports teams.<BR/>4) given 3, I would have liked to have seen them ask a similar question to Q4 about the carolina panthers, I bet the results would be similar.<BR/>5) Q1 is screwy. There are other schools in the state. Wake Forest, ECU, etc. The results on this question are not very meaningful. They should have stuck to pro sports. NASCAR in Charlotte, Panthers, Bobcats, or Hurricanes. They should of had a different question for college teams and asked about all of the major teams<BR/>6) 25% of the people that they surveyed were from the triad, yet no wake forest as stated above.<BR/><BR/>I find the survey to be poorly organized with the mix of pro and college.<BR/><BR/>I would have liked to have seen an initial question of 1) do you follow sports.. - 1 for yes, 2 for no. At this point drop any no folks out. Then for the yes folks layer in similar questions for each pro team. I think this method would prove to get a better understanding.. Then follow this up with a similar constructed poll for college.<BR/><BR/>I'm posting this same write up on that site.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14383361402427448182noreply@blogger.com