ShmoopTube
Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.
Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos
Political Beliefs and Behaviors Videos 16 videos
AP U.S. Government 1.1 Political Beliefs and Behaviors. Scientific polls contain a margin of error of plus or minus what?
AP U.S. Government 2.1 Political Beliefs and Behaviors. All of the following groups are part of the liberal coalition except which?
AP U.S. Government: Political Beliefs and Behaviors Drill 1, Problem 2. An internet pop-up that asks you if you prefer Wendy's or McDonald's is a w...
AP U.S. Government 1.3 Political Beliefs and Behaviors 5 Views
Share It!
Description:
AP U.S. Government 1.3 Political Beliefs and Behaviors. What sort of poll would you commission to monitor popularity over three months?
Transcript
- 00:03
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by exit polls which asked the [Exit pool door opens]
- 00:08
age-old question should I stay or should I go what sort of poll would you
- 00:14
commission to monitor popularity over three months and here are the potential
- 00:18
answers... All right well as opinions change over time polling provides a way
- 00:25
to capture those feelings and make them all scientific and data-driven a real [Graph point moving up and down]
Full Transcript
- 00:29
dream for math people... Well random sample polls while certainly representative of
- 00:35
the population as a whole are designed is one-time shot so we could find out if
- 00:39
we're popular at this very moment but we wouldn't know if it's more or less than [Woman holding a trophy falling]
- 00:43
before so maybe we shouldn't put all our eggs in A's basket.. Exit polls can track
- 00:48
changes from election to election but they take place specifically yep at the [Man holding microphone to a camel]
- 00:53
polls, so we can vote B out as well..Could we commission D - an opt-in pole well if
- 00:59
we ask people to opt in before they voted about our popularity we might not get [Girl sticks a flyer on a door]
- 01:04
the most accurate answers so sorry mom your vote is skewing our survey so we
- 01:08
better dump D too..What about E? A quota sample poll well if we wanted to find
- 01:14
out how a certain quota like everyone just in our grade felt about our [Boy appears beside a group of students in the hall]
- 01:18
popularity then we'd be keen on a quota poll which isolates a certain groups
- 01:22
preferences from the rest but it wouldn't capture any change over time...
- 01:27
which means if we wanted to monitor our popularity over three months we'd want
- 01:31
to commission C; a tracking poll a tracking poll is used to look at changes [Woman holding up a picture of a bat and man wearing a wired pan on his head]
- 01:36
in opinion over time, since its repeated periodically to see how people's
- 01:40
feelings are well changing, so C is the correct answer contrary to popular
- 01:44
belief these polls are not helpful in determining the outcome of track and
- 01:47
field event [Athletes running on a track through a poll booth]
Related Videos
AP U.S. Government 1.1 Institutions of National Government. What was the scale of representation in the House of Representatives when the Constitut...
AP U.S. Government 2.2 Public Policy. What did the Budget Impoundment Control Act do?
AP U.S. Government 2.3 Civil Rights and Liberties. Classifications based on sexual orientation receive...what?
AP U.S. History Exam 2.45. The journey shown on the map was an example of...what?
AP U.S. History Exam 2.26. This speech reinforced a shift in the focus of the war that Lincoln established by...what?