Politics & Government · Elections & Political Behaviour
A topic within Elections & Political Behaviour, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Politics & Government.
2 works
Pew Research Center
Walks through how a modern probability-based survey is actually built — sampling frame, weighting, margin of error — so a headline poll number can be read for what it does and doesn't claim.
link checked 17 Sept 2026George Gallup & Saul Forbes Rae
Argues scientific sampling can measure public opinion on any question more accurately than letters, straw votes or elected representatives claiming to speak for their constituents, and lays out the method that makes this possible.