Archive for September, 2004
Chapter 13: Good Polling to Keep Democracy Alive and Elections Honest
Chapter 13: Good Polling to Keep Democracy Alive and Elections Honest By Alan F. Kay, PhD © 2004, (fair use with attribution and copy to author) Sept. 29, 2004 In Chapter 10, we saw the utility of often including authority figures in testing support for policy. Since adequate questions tend to be [...]
Chapter 12: Historical Persistence of Public Opinion
Chapter 12: Historical Persistence of Public Opinion By Alan F. Kay, PhD © 2004, (fair use with attribution and copy to author) Sept. 10, 2004 Public support for a government policy is persistent, meaning that it changes very slowly over the years -- unless a major event relevant to the issue occurs, [...]
