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It's All About That Data
100
ECPIP is our acronym for this title.
What is the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling?
100
This is the name for a voter who will most probably participate in an upcoming election.
What is a likely voter?
100
This is the first and last name of the person to your right.
Who is ________?
100
This man is known as the father of modern day survey research and public opinion polling. A very popular poll is named after him.
Who is George Gallup?
100
We use this statistical program to analyze our survey data.
What is SPSS?
200
This is the name of our statewide public opinion poll.
What is the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll?
200
This is one challenge survey researchers face when trying to obtain a sample.
What is ...
Mobility of US population
Emergence of cell phone-only households
Unlisted versus listed numbers
Number portability
Nonresponse (ability and willingness)?
200
This is the first and last name of our incredible Graduate Assistant!
Who is (the amazing) Kathleen Rogers?
200
This is the name of a big, important, credible public opinion poll (besides our own awesome poll).
What is the (multiple answers accepted)?
200
This is the name for when we take respondents' word-for-word (verbatim) responses and put them into categories with similar responses in order to quantify and analyze them.
What is open-ended coding?
300
This is the year our poll was founded.
What is 1971?
300
This is the part of the population from which we actually collect information and report on.
What is a sample?
300
This is the team you send TBTs/FFs to every week.
What is the social media team?
300
This is the name of another statewide New Jersey poll (aka our competitors ... aka, not as cool as us).
What is (multiple answers accepted)?
FDU PublicMind
Monmouth
Stockton
300
This is the name for the type of data analysis that shows us the distribution of opinions overall across the entire sample.
What is a frequency?
400
This is the number of our next poll.
What is 201?
400
This is the range of values above or below the a given percentage that express the upper and lower limit of what that percentage could actually be if we surveyed the entire population. This is usually expressed as percentage points.
What is margin of error?
400
This is the name of our newest staff intern.
Who is Yrbenka?
400
This is a description of a recent poll in the media. (Any recent credible poll will do - a rough/general idea of the results.)
What is (multiple answers accepted)?
400
This is the name for the type of data analysis that allows us to explore relationships between two different variables; for example, it allows us to see if there is a relationship between a certain question and particular demographic groups.
What is a crosstab?
500
What is one question that we always ask on every poll?
What is Chris Christie's favorability rating?
(Other answers acceptable.)
500
These are two challenges to questionnaire design.
What is ...
Ambiguity in questions
Loaded/argumentative/leading questions
Double-barreled questions
Response options
Double negatives
Branching and labeling
Order and context?
500
This is the name of our ECPIP director.
BONUS: This is the department in which he teaches.
Who is Dr. Redlawsk?
BONUS: Political science.
500
This is what AAPOR stands for.
What is the American Association for Public Opinion Research?
500
This term describes why we have multiple staff members coding the same open-ended responses to serve as checks on one another in terms of what codes they assign.