{"id":1691,"date":"2009-04-20T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2009-04-20T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:35:22","slug":"exit-polling-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Exit Polling Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Brady was the original brains and writing behind the Stones Cry Out blog (or what we sometimes refer to as the Foundation Stone).&#160; He&#8217;s no longer in the blogging arena these days, unfortunately.&#160; One of the subjects he touched on here a number of times before he left (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/examining_the_u.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/archives\/2005\/03\/new_exit_poll_p.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/archives\/2005\/03\/critical_review.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/archives\/2005\/03\/us_count_votes.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stonescryout.org\/archives\/2005\/08\/san_diegos_para.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) was the subject of exit polling.&#160; He, along with colleagues, wrote a paper on the subject entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicopinionpros.com\/from_field\/2006\/jan\/brady_i.asp\" target=\"_blank\">&quot;Behind the Controversy: A Primer on U.S. Presidential Exit Polls&quot;<\/a>.&#160; It&#8217;s a good explanation of problems inherent in exit polling.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think it shouldn&#8217;t be that difficult; finding out what people had just finished doing.&#160; However, it&#8217;s not so simple.&#160; It&#8217;s a good read and, for a non-statistics guy like me, was still understandable.&#160; Worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Brady was the original brains and writing behind the Stones Cry Out blog (or what we sometimes refer to as the Foundation Stone).&#160; He&#8217;s no longer in the blogging arena these days, unfortunately.&#160; One of the subjects he touched on here a number of times before he left (see here, here, here, here and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-polls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}