PL SC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Extrapolation, Limited Government
22 Apr 2016
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Those opinions held by private persons which governments find it prudent to heed. How do we measure public opinion: select a random sample from a population of interest, ask the people in the appropriate questions, count answers, extrapolate the results. National poll, sample size between 1,200 to 1,500. How should i interpret poll results: how was the survey conducted, how many people were sampled (and over what time) , what is the margin of error: Measurement error = error in the fit between the words used in the poll and the concepts they are measuring. **cq: major, credible, pollsters gather public opinions by: Answer: gathering the opinions of ordinary people using random samples. An organized and consistent manner of thinking and feeling about people, groups, social issues, or, more generally any event in one"s environment. Aggregate public opinion = the sum of all individual opinions.
