How Serious are Methodological Issues in Surveys? A Reexamination of the Clarence Thomas Polls^T

J. Armstrong and F. Collopy
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F. Collopy: The Weatherhead School of Management

General Economics and Teaching from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Opinion polling procedures allow for reasonable inferences about attitude changes. We examined this contention using surveys about the nomination of Clarence Thomas. In this situation, prior theory allowed us to predict the direction of changes, surveys had been conducted by a number of organizations, and substantial information was available about the methodology used in the surveys. As a result we concluded that the deteriorating opinions of Thomas were real.

Keywords: surveys; methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2005-02-04
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