I always assigned my journalism class to research the 1936 Literary Digest telephone poll and its ‘scientific’ rigor by selecting telephone households. 1936, still in the grasp of a depression … now tell me what sort of household was likely to have a telephone in 1936, let alone a direct number line.
I always assigned my journalism class to research the 1936 Literary Digest telephone poll and its ‘scientific’ rigor by selecting telephone households. 1936, still in the grasp of a depression … now tell me what sort of household was likely to have a telephone in 1936, let alone a direct number line.
Five Thirty-Eight should have known how scattershot their methodology was going to be in a smartphone environment. Like taking a sextant fix at midnight under no moon and under a deck tarp.
I always assigned my journalism class to research the 1936 Literary Digest telephone poll and its ‘scientific’ rigor by selecting telephone households. 1936, still in the grasp of a depression … now tell me what sort of household was likely to have a telephone in 1936, let alone a direct number line.
Five Thirty-Eight should have known how scattershot their methodology was going to be in a smartphone environment. Like taking a sextant fix at midnight under no moon and under a deck tarp.