The class for Friday 1 February will be online.
Each person will POST a brief presentation of survey research results by Friday at 2:15 p.m.
Between Friday and Monday, each person will read all of the brief presentations and respond to two with a question or substantive comment. You may only comment on a presentation that has 0 or 1 comments already; if two comments are present, read further.
What you will present:
Begin with the name and source of the article (add a link or URL if possible) then:
- What was the topic or question of the survey?
- What variable(s) were considered in the survey?
- What answer or findings does the report present?
- Who conducted the survey?
- What method was used (telephone, in-person, mailed q’naire)?
- How many people were surveyed?
- How were they chosen? Is it random sample?
- Is there any comparison to other data, such as previous surveys, surveys of other types of people, surveys from other regions or nations?
- How hard or easy was it to understand the results?
- What skills, ideas, or competency would you need from this course in order to be able to understand such a report better?
Sources of survey research reports:
- Pew Research Center (look at both Topics and Publications Index)
- The Gallup Poll (look at Topics index)
- Washington Post/ABC News Polls (mostly politics; scroll down to see other topics)
- CBS News Polls (mostly politics; scroll down to see other topics)
- National Institute of Justice (US govt) topical reports
- Bureau of Labor Statistics reports (US govt) dozens of topical links
- The news items scrolling in the left sidebar
- Your own Google search
