October 7, 2021 iqsresearch News No comments yet Understanding Research – Political Polls and Their Context Yesterday, the President of IQS Research Shawn Herbig spent an hour on the radio discussing some of the intricacies involved […] Read more
May 29, 2012 Shawn Herbig News No comments yet City Research: Beyond the Political Polls, What Does Your Community Really Think? Professional, targeted research is in a different league than political polling. The kind of institutional research that IQS Research does […] Read more
February 23, 2012 Shawn Herbig News No comments yet What Makes a Statistically Valid Sample? Most people have pretty limited understanding of statistics and research analytics, and they’d probably say they are thankful for that […] Read more
June 1, 2011 Shawn Herbig News No comments yet “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” – A case study in trusting the untrustworthy Last week, I posted a commentary on the dangers of trusting polls and research derived from samples of convenience. In […] Read more
May 26, 2011 Shawn Herbig News No comments yet Polling: A double-edged sword Let us pretend for a moment that we all understand the foundations of probability theory – because this is a […] Read more