Stanford University/ Yale University Pennsylvania Opinion Survey

[Born Free]

My wife and I normally do not participate in polls, but received a letter via USPS from Professor David Broockman, Stanford University ( Stanford, Ca) to take an online Pennsylvania Opinion Survey that he and Joshua Kalla of Yale University are currently conducting. It gave us passwords to log in at paopinion.org or http://opinion.stanford.edu by Sept 1 to participate. It goes on to state that if we are contacted for any followup surveys they will pay us $5.00.

I am not excited to participate in any surveys, especially not knowing who is actually paying to do the survey.

Is anyone familiar with this so called study of registered Pennsylvania voters?

[emmaverybo]

1. I am very skeptical. Even if you and wife are Stanford alumni and receive correspondence from

Stanford (usually requests for donations), also a medical newsletter out of Harvard, or the Stanford
magazine, this request seems way out of line with the university’s usual efforts to engage its community.

I question the source, but stand to be corrected.

[Born Free]

2. thanks emmaverybo

I have serious doubts about the source as well.

[Karadeniz]

3. Is this one of the guys who conduct the very reputable Presidential Ranking survey?

Two guys do that one, one on each coast. Look up who does the survey i mentioned.

[Born Free]

4. Thanks to all, I found some information on Brookman & Kalla

It's possible they are seeking people to test their theories on persuasion, if you fit into their test group you will get paid $5.00 for future surveys. Although I am a persuadable democratic voter, and may consider an online survey, I am not interested in participating in any surveys requiring personal contact and/or phone calls etc.



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