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opinion poll
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type of survey
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- inquiry
- Significant event
- 1824 United States presidential election
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- Category:Polling
- Commons category
- Opinion polls
- significant person
- Jean Stoetzel
- has effect
- tactical voting
- has characteristic
- response bias
- described by source
- Pew Research Center
- facet of
- social research
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Encyclopedic overview
Voter polling questionnaire on the 1996 Democratic Party presidential primary on display at the Smithsonian Institution
An opinion poll, often simply referred to as a survey or a poll, is a human research survey of public opinion from a particular sample. Opinion polls are usually designed to represent the opinions of a population by conducting a series of questions and then extrapolating generalities in ratio or within confidence intervals. A person who conducts polls is referred to as a pollster.
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