can't wait for the avant garde grammar-themed met gala

who called it a time-off request and not a motion to vacay

(showing the new hire around the political science department) and of course, every week we have Causal Friday

i like when there's one item that makes it wildly obvious that respondents are not, in fact, straightlining

news.gallup.com/poll/644675/dm…

what a lovely morning to get mad at someone who was writing survey questionnaires in 1991 for their clunky wording on what I would otherwise like to be a trend question

seven-eighths of my brain is trying to do work and the remainder is popping up to be like, 'hey, if South Dakota's governor became VP, her Secret Service detail could eventually write a tell-all called GUARDIN' NOEM'

Ariel Edwards-Levy I got my Qualtrics license last week, just like we always talked about…

why did nobody tell me the dress code for this conference was 'electric sheep's clothing'

have I mentioned how much I miss Old School Tweetdeck

Ariel Edwards-Levy Here, an editor apparently claims a zebras was spotted despite common knowledge to pretty much all 5-year-olds, seattletimes.com/seattle-news/z…

'what? haven't you ever heard of a zebra crossing before?'

cnn.com/2024/04/29/us/…

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…