Total Survey Design
Total Survey Design is a podcast for explaining the complexities of survey design. This podcast serves a diverse audience, including academics, small business owners, nonprofits, industry professionals, and students. Each season features episodes covering topics from survey utility to sample sizes, and question design to total survey error. Episode content includes insightful discussions, expert interviews, and special event coverage to enhance your survey skills and understanding.
Podcasting since 2024 • 28 episodes
Total Survey Design
Latest Episodes
Trump & Rogan vs. Survey Sampling: Addendum
On this bonus episode of the Total Survey Design podcast, I follow up on Trump and Rogan’s polling critiques with a listener email highlighting nonresponse bias, the real issue behind low response rates, where responders often differ systematic...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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5:04
Trump & Rogan vs. Survey Sampling: What They Got Right, And Totally Wrong
On this episode of the Total Survey Design podcast, I examine an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, #2219, which aired on October 25th, 2024, where he discusses survey sampling with President Donald Trump. They both express skepticism...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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16:35
Designing a Feedback Survey From Scratch
In this episode, Azdren creates a feedback survey from scratch, showing the process from idea formation, to messy first draft of the questionnaire, to final product. To see the final version of the questionnaire and to give your va...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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15:55
Survey Weighting: When It Helps And When It Hurts
This episode of the Total Survey Design podcast demystifies the statistical technique of survey weighting (or post-stratification), explaining how it corrects sample imbalances by giving "quiet groups" more influence. The hosts define weighting...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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10:19
Nonresponse Error. Part 1 - Why Response Rate Does Not Necessarily Predict Nonresponse Error
This episode explains the important distinction between response rate and nonresponse error in survey research. Drawing on principles from Dillman et al.(2014), it clarifies that a high response rate does not necessarily mean low nonresponse er...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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5:26
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