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Data is showing

Good day and here’s to a stable and prosperous calendar year. Many groups will be remaining at home in spite of loosened travel and commute... Continue reading

Posted Jul 19, 2022 at The Survey Geek

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Thoughts on Privacy Day

Thursday, January 28 is Data Privacy Day, and I am reminded that roughly 25 years ago I wrote a chapter for a book in which... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2021 at The Survey Geek

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Polling Again!

Once again the second biggest story coming out of a US presidential election is what one commentator described as "the absolutely massive failure of political... Continue reading

Posted Nov 8, 2020 at The Survey Geek

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Charting a course through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Two interesting pieces of research out this morning about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research results. The first comes from Zappi and an... Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2020 at The Survey Geek

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The cost of privacy

My email this morning included a message from Hertz describing their new fleet of BMWs. I don’t rent from Hertz anymore and the emails they... Continue reading

Posted Nov 25, 2019 at The Survey Geek

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Is Insights a Profession?

Yesterday, like 100 million or so other Americans, I tuned into the Super Bowl. I was not there to see whether the Flying Elvis would... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2019 at The Survey Geek

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Finding the soul of research

I stole the title of this post from Simon Chadwick's editorial in the November/December issue of Research World. It reminded me that I, like many... Continue reading

Posted Dec 9, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Big Data: Part 3

This post is the third and last, at least for now, on my series about MR’s struggles with big data. Its theme is simple: big... Continue reading

Posted Oct 19, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Big Data: Part 2

This second post in my series about MR’s ongoing struggle with big data is focused on our stubborn resistance to the analytic techniques that are... Continue reading

Posted Oct 16, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Big Data: Part 1

I have seen more than my share of MR conference presentations on big data over the last three or four years and it’s hard not... Continue reading

Posted Oct 14, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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ESOMAR Congress 2015: All behavior all the time

OK, so that’s a bit of an exaggeration and at a conference with as many concurrent sessions as we have here in Dublin there is... Continue reading

Posted Oct 1, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Failure to replicate

The not-so-big new last week was the NYT article with the intriguing title, “Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says,” a rehash... Continue reading

Posted Aug 31, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Online samples: Paying attention to the important stuff

Those of you who routinely prowl the MRX blogosphere may have noticed a recent uptick in worries about speeders, fraudulent respondents, and other undesirables in... Continue reading

Posted Aug 25, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Representivity ain't what it used to be

I am on my way back from ESOMAR APAC in Singapore where I gave a short presentation with the title, “What you need to know... Continue reading

Posted May 20, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Mixed mode, but with a twist

I was in London last week at the MRS Annual Conference where there were a number of interesting sessions, including an excellent workshop on social... Continue reading

Posted Mar 24, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Online Sampling Again

Last week two posts on the GreenBook Blog, one by Scott Weinberg and a response by Ron Sellers, bemoaned the quality of online research and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 12, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Today is Privacy Day!

Almost 20 years ago some colleagues and I edited a book with the inviting title, Computer Assisted Information Collection. Experts on a wide variety of... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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Aligning practice and principle in the NewMR

Regular readers of this blog (assuming they exist) may have noticed that since retiring almost three years ago posts here are few and far between.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2015 at The Survey Geek

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"Just trust us."

While skimming an article in the current issue of Businessweek on the Weather Channel’s emerging use of big data for things other than predicting the... Continue reading

Posted Oct 15, 2014 at The Survey Geek

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AAPOR gets it wrong

Unless you’ve been on vacation the last couple of weeks chances are that you have heard that The New York Times CBS News have begun... Continue reading

Posted Aug 5, 2014 at The Survey Geek

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Innovate or ?

I spent most of this week in Atlanta at the Insight Innovation Exchange. All I can say is, “Whew!” There must have been 100 presentations... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2014 at The Survey Geek

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A bad survey or no survey at all?

For a whole lot of reasons that I won’t go into online privacy suddenly is front and center, not just in the research industry, but... Continue reading

Posted Jun 11, 2014 at The Survey Geek

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Whither mobile?

I spent two days last week in Chicago at Market Research in the Mobile World (MRMW). I now have been to all four of the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 2, 2014 at The Survey Geek

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A little theory might help

As best I can remember it was November of 2009 when I first sat through a conference presentation setting out some basic design considerations for... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2014 at The Survey Geek

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Game-changers and same-changers

I am a political junkie. I wish I could write “recovering political junkie” but I know I’m not there yet. One current challenge is to... Continue reading

Posted Nov 20, 2013 at The Survey Geek

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