POL 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Exit Poll, Sampling Error, Selection Bias
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Aggregation of peoples views about issues, situations, and public figures: collecting groups of opinions, accumulating multiple opinions and values. Political polls: polls are continuous, assessing public opinion over time. Assessments of public policy: economic confidence, political orientation. Broad focus of the chapter: how do you take part in politics. Protesting: public opinion is often uninformed. Altered by media and what it focuses on in politics: sources of public opinion. People that lived through the depression are often more democratic. Blacks in the civil war time became republican. Immediate surroundings: higher level of education means higher chance of participating politically. Framing: media shapes what we taljk about and how we talk about it. Also effects what opinion we take on a certain event. Scientific instrument for assessing public opinion: not an exact science. Taking multiple polls over a domain of time: exit poll. Polling someone as they leaving the polling booth. Contraversey in the 2000 election in florida.
