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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Oldhoopster, post: 3039571, member: 84179&quot;]I appreciate your explanation of why you&#039;re conducting these polls and doing the analysis.&nbsp; Years ago, I worked on a project that incorporated survey data.&nbsp; I was shocked to find out the amount of work that went into designing the questions, right down to the specific wording and question sequence.&nbsp; Differences in some of these parameters could greatly influence which statistical methods were used to analyze the data.&nbsp; Fortunately, we had people on the team who did this for a living.&nbsp; I’m not going to pretend I understand all of this, but I did learn enough to know that if you truly want to make meaningful conclusions, you need to know something about the science of surveys.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple articles I quickly pulled up in an internet search.&nbsp; If you’ve never considered the details that go into polling (beyond the statistical analysis), you may find it interesting</p><p><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/questionnaire-design/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/questionnaire-design/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/questionnaire-design/</a></p><p><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/collecting-survey-data/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/collecting-survey-data/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/collecting-survey-data/</a></p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/68/1/109/1855073" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/68/1/109/1855073" rel="nofollow">https://academic.oup.com/poq/article/68/1/109/1855073</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As someone who enjoys charting, plotting and throwing an occasional data set in Minitab to see what it tells me, I’m with you. <u>I see no issues with doing it for fun</u>, but depending on what you want to do with the results, I just want to make sure that you’re aware that the conclusions you make from the data may have serious statistical flaws.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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