Introducing the Survey 160 Tracking Poll — Survey 160 Today we are releasing the first set of results from a pilot of a new project of Survey 160: a recurring tracking poll. These polls will track presidential approval and generic house ballot, among oth...

New at Survey 160's blog: We're trying something new and have piloted the first in what we intend as an ongoing tracking survey. The first data release, with presidential approval and generic Congressional Ballot, plus a survey experiment, is here: www.survey160.com/methodologic...

Are LLM-generated "silicon samples" a good replacement for original data collection? We review the research and conclude they are not ... but not for the reasons you might think

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When not to use MMS for surveys — Survey 160 An increasingly common way to use text messaging for surveys is not SMS (short message service) but MMS (multimedia message service). Some believe that MMS allows survey firms to share an image like a...

New on our blog, when *not* to use MMS for surveys

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How long should we stay in the field? (Part I) — Survey 160 Today we want to share some research, presented at last year’s AAPOR conference, on when to stop fielding. The persistence and asynchronous nature of text message communication makes this a compound ...

How long should text message surveys stay in the field?
In a 2-part series, we break down:
— tradeoffs between speed & accuracy
— real-world models showing where field length really matters
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Timing your Texting — Survey 160 Operationally it is useful to know if the time of delivery of a text message has any impact on the survey. At Survey 160, we field text message surveys somewhat differently from others, asking for spe...

Our latest blog post illustrates how we use randomized controlled trials in conjunction with meta-analysis to inform software features and answer practical questions such as "When should we text people (and when shouldn't we)?"
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Hello, World! Survey 160 has started a Bluesky account to share some of what we're working on, mostly methodological research along with some substantive findings too. If you're interested in surveys, or texting, or especially texting for surveys, give us a follow

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Excited to share some tips for writing about polls for anyone coming in cold to the subject!

(Pictured: a thing on which pollsters are probably not calling you these days).