While Gallup’s inaccuracies came as a shock to the political community, they are representative of a bigger problem: the inaccuracies of phone polling, which have only gotten worse. Traditional polling by landline phone has grown more difficult as fewer people are...
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Here's Why Polls Are So Bad At Predicting Election Results
We talked to polling experts Al Tuchfarber and Cliff Zukin to explain why such polls are so unreliable and to set the record straight on pre-presidential election survey methodologies and results. Tuchfarber is professor emeritus of political science at the University...
Will millennials save New Jersey?
"They've delayed being launched," said Cliff Zukin, a Rutgers University professor who has studied generational changes on American society. "They're going to delay marriage, having jobs, kids, buying houses." The combination of problems is causing New Jersey...
Remembering Alan Rosenthal: video of memorial ceremony now available
On September 22, 2013 Professor Alan Rosenthal, a member of the Bloustein School’s public policy faculty who passed away in July, was honored at the Eagleton Institute of Politics. Among the speakers were two former U.S. Senators, a number of Professor...
Rutgers’ Heldrich Center for Workforce Development wins national policy impact award
The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) has presented its 2013 National Policy Impact Award to the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, for its groundbreaking Work Trends survey series exploring the devastating...
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2024 New Jersey Big Data Alliance Annual Symposium: Artificial Intelligence Impacts on Society & Higher Education
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