Polls and Surveys
This tells you how much poll results might differ from the actual population.
What is the margin of error?
Department names should only be capitalized when apart of ....?
What is Official / Formal Names?
The state name can be included when necessary to avoid this.
What is Confusion?
How should you write a decade such as the 1990s?
What is 1990s (with no apostrophe)
What number, as a percentage, do you have to spell out "percent" for?
What is Zero Percent
Poll results should be rounded to this type of number.
What is a whole number?
Which title is correct: the U.S. government or the U.S. Government?
State abbreviations are required in most of these when paired with a city, town, village or military base.
What are Datelines?
What punctuation should you NOT use when writing only a month and year?
What is a comma
What term should you use when directly comparing one percentage to another percentage?
What is percentage points
A good poll should choose people using this method to better represent the population.
What is random sampling?
What is False? Use abbreviations only after a full name.
A city that stands alone in a dateline can sometimes appear by itself in a story without a dateline if this would not result.
What is Confusion?
How should you abbreviate a month, such as January or February, when writing a complete date?
What is Jan., Feb.
When an expression with a % sign is followed by a singular word after of, what type of verb should it take?
What is a singular verb
This can affect the accuracy of a poll if the questions are confusing or biased.
What is question wording?
When establishing credentials, should you 1) use an abbreviation or 2) use a phrase
What is use a phrase?
A state name should be spelled out when it stands alone or appears with one of these locations.
What are a town, military base, or village?
According to the style rules, what should you use when writing numbers in dates?
What is Digits (Arabic numerals)
What should you generally avoid doing when beginning a sentence with a percentage?
What is putting the % sign in
A poll should tell you who conducted and paid for the research.
What is the poll sponsor?
Use lowercase except for words that are ____ nouns or adjectives.
What is Proper?
What are the 8 states that should never be abbreviated?
What is Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Ohio, Texas and Utah?
How should you write a date that includes the month, day, and year?
What is Month. Day, Year
When writing percentages, should you use decimals or fractions?
What is decimals