fair warning that the next person who innocently asks me about my job is going to get a 20-minute spiel about how the decision to include/omit an explicit 'unsure' option on current events polling* can enormously impact the results

*both options are valid and tell us something!

I would very much like to see more poll releases along these lines, please and thank you

(via UNH Survey Center scholars.unh.edu/survey_center_…)

The main takeaway:

I wrote about the challenges of polling third-party candidates, and why it may be especially difficult this cycle: cnn.com/2024/04/22/pol…

just found myself thinking the phrase 'is kitinyot the credibility interval of bread,' so now you can all ponder it too

How-to-read-survey-toplines tip of the day:

If a response is listed with 'vol.' next to it, that means it wasn't an option given in the question, but some respondents volunteered it.

(More common in live-phone than online surveys, which often don't have a mechanism to do this.)

almost an inevitability that I will someday get kicked off a jury for needlessly cavilling about the jury questionnaire's survey design

tempted to add this as an experiment to see how many of my colleagues are actually looking through others' Outlook profiles

boring:'we just have a few more questions for demographic purposes'

exciting: 'calibrate, good times, come on!'

you may have noticed The Sky rolling out a temporary test of our 'DARK MODE' experience to some users in markets across parts of Texas, Ohio, New York and other states this afternoon

New: Beneath the overall stability of the 2024 polling is a wild inversion of longstanding trends among the youngest and oldest slices of the electorate.

Is it real, and what might it mean? politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

live reenactment of the eclipse overtaking the sun

infographics editors in the path of totality: please save your work this afternoon to prevent a total eclipse of the chart

glad for my The Washington Post friends that DC isn't in the path of totality

editor: thanks for applying to our overnight writer position! and do you have any writing samples online?

the moon: e-clips, you mean? sure, one sec...

meetings throughout the country today expected to violate sunshine laws