Serious polling requires careful data collection and careful adjustment. It doesn't mean much to say your poll is a "probability sample" when your nonresponse rate is 90 percent.

For over a decade, researchers have considered boson sampling—a quantum computing protocol involving light particles—as a key ...

Chapter 5. 1. Distinguish between probability and non-probability sampling and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. If you can not specify the probability that any given individual will ...

It recommended the use of probability sampling at all levels of respondent selection, and the elimination of quotas. There was, of course, another reason for this most famous of polling mistakes: ...