On Nov 9, 2006, at 7:19 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
> How reliable is Pew, anyway? I see them contradict Gallup and Harris
> on a lot issues. Someone told me that Pew is the "gold standard" of
> polls - that when they conflict with other pollsters, I should believe
> them. True? False?
How do they contradict Gallup & Harris? (Harris does a lot of web polls, so I'm not sure how reliable they are.) Pew is a serious outfit, and they often do interesting analyses. Don't know about the gold standard though; all the majors do good work, within their conceptual limits of course.
Doug