Psychology Today

Treatments for Covid-19 and Random Sampling

In a recently published news story, we learn about a young doctor, Jake Deutsch, and his personal experience with coronavirus disease 2019. Deutsch tested positive for Covid-19 and checked himself ...

Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it actually works

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...
The Washington Post

Straight talk about polling: Probability sampling can be helpful but it’s no magic bullet

Mark Blumenthal and Natalie Jackson of Huffpost Pollster write: If you read polls in the news, you’re probably familiar with the term “margin of error.” What ...
The Conversation

How a random sampling regime could help detect COVID and highlight infection hotspots

Stephen John Haslett is a member of the NZ Ministry of Health Covid-19 Expert Advisory Network. As a member of the Te Punaha Matatini research collaboration Richard Arnold receives funding from the ...
Simon Fraser University

Sample Selection Methods

PROC SURVEYSELECT provides a variety of methods for selecting probability-based random samples. With probability sampling, each unit in the survey population has a known, positive probablity of ...
PBS

The Problem With Polls

Public Editor’s Note: Almost every day, in our Public Broadcasting Service Public Editor’s email box, we receive written questions and concerns from confused or misdirected audience members who ...
research

What is the future of random probability sampling?

UK – At a lecture hosted by the International Journal of Market Research (IJMR), researchers from Kantar, NatCen and Ipsos Mori discussed the future of random probability sampling. Random probability ...