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Ekstra Bladet kan formidle en meningsmåling, der viser, at borgerlige vælgere foretrækker Søren Pape Poulsen frem for Jakob Ellemann-Jensen som statsminister. Ekstra Bladet kalder det selv for en ‘vild måling’. Meningsmålingen er foretaget af Kantar Gallup, men det bliver ikke meldt ud, hvem der har bestilt og betalt for meningsmålingen. Dette er selvsagt et problem, […]

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I mit forrige indlæg om, hvor stor opbakning der er til Inger Støjbergs nye parti, pointerede jeg, at der var et problem med målinger, der gav et misvisende billede af opbakningen til partiet. Derfor konkluderede jeg, at vi er “bedre tjent med traditionelle meningsmålinger eller målinger, der ikke eksplicit handler om at stemme på et […]

In a previous post, I discussed a study by Mertens et al. (2022) showing that the average effect size of nudging is large (i.e., a Cohen’s d of 0.45). In my post, I identified several limitations in the study that led me to conclude that the average effect size presented in the study most likely […]

In a new book, Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them, G. Elliott Morris sets out to provide an ‘insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy’. I am interested in political polling and, unsuprisingly, I was looking forward to reading this […]