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Dan Cassino

@dancassino.bsky.social

Political scientist at FDU, Executive Director of the FDU Poll, studying masculinities and research methods.

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Jon Green@jongreen.bsky.social · 4d ago

the problem with Wedgewood isn't that other pollsters don't have standards (they very much do! aapor.org/standards-an...), it's that ~no one on the demand side pays attention to professional ratings of pollsters' reputations/adherence to these standards (or lack thereof)

Standards and Ethics - AAPOR

Overview AAPOR believes in upholding the highest standards for our profession, with our members agreeing to abide by the AAPOR Code of Professional Ethics and Practices. Our goals are to support sound...

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Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 4d ago

Polling, at minimum, needs a trade association which sets minimum standards for polling and to make polling commensurable so that poll aggregation is an apples to apples comparison process and so you can apply different pollsters "house effects" to other pollsters microdata.

Dan Cassino@dancassino.bsky.social · 7d ago

I know some folks think that differentiating between sex and gender is woke, and the definitions are too complicated, and it's new and we can't expect people to understand, and here's notoriously woke outlet Hustler explaining it to a reader in 1974.

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Dan Cassino@dancassino.bsky.social · last wk.

Two things going on here, I think. 1) Some states just don’t have local public polls any more, which is a problem. 2) Some pollsters are shy about releasing numbers too close to an election, as it’s harder to say “my numbers are good, but the race changed.”

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · last wk.

Important post from my colleagues at FiftyPlusOne: Pollsters are publishing fewer polls in fewer races this year, which could increase uncertainty in polling averages and election forecasts: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/where-are-...

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 2w ago

We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

Dan Cassino@dancassino.bsky.social · last wk.

I put together a non-infringing Answer and Question trivia game for some Incomparable panelists who were contestants on a well known Answer and Question show. We had loads of fun, and I got to explore some of my favorite topics with some very smart folks. www.theincomparable.com/gameshow/293/

This is Relayparty! (Game Show 293)

From the Relay St. Jude fundraising campaign comes this game where three familiar Incomparable voices with a bit of televised game show history compete in a game of answers and questions!

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Dan Cassino@dancassino.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tom Kean, Jr. is in real trouble not because he was in treatment for depression, but because he missed a lot of votes. Missing votes, and otherwise not doing your job, is about the strongest attack that can be made against an incumbent. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. might lose, but not because of four-month absence

Rep. Tom Kean, R-New Jersey, was absent from Congress for four months, which he later attributed to depression. His reelection race is looking tight.

usatoday.com