{"id":1601,"date":"2012-08-01T07:45:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2012-07-30T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T16:55:57","slug":"polling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/08\/01\/polling\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by HowardLake on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53941041@N00\/7577856722\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8155\/7577856722_8e34532bc7_m.jpg\" alt=\"It's survey season\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The roundtable &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/roundtables\/polling\/\">Polling, Politics, and the Populace<\/a>&#8221; is a great overview of the insights sociologists can provide to polling. \u00a0While there are several aspects you could discuss the classroom, one of the key points highlights the difficulty of asking questions. \u00a0To illustrate this, students could create a few survey questions in class after reading the roundtable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have the entire class brainstorm a topic and audience for a fictitious survey. \u00a0Then, have students break into groups. \u00a0Each group should develop three questions about the topic. \u00a0After 10 minutes, ask each group to write their questions on the board. \u00a0Then, discuss the questions as a class. \u00a0Are they closed or open-ended (you could also specify this in the directions so all are closed-ended), and why might this matter? \u00a0What do they measure? \u00a0How are they different? \u00a0Are there ambiguous words, jargon, or other confusing aspects? \u00a0Would there be difficulties with in-person polling? \u00a0Etc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roundtable &#8220;Polling, Politics, and the Populace&#8221; is a great overview of the insights sociologists can provide to polling. \u00a0While there are several aspects you could discuss the classroom, one of the key points highlights the difficulty of asking questions. \u00a0To illustrate this, students could create a few survey questions in class after reading the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38,85,761,12864],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-methods","tag-politics","tag-polling","tag-surveys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}