Capturing Voter Intent: What Polling Error Teaches Us About Electoral Trends
/0 Comments/in COVID Podcasts, Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffJoin Host Joe Selvaggi and Harvard Professor Chase Harrison as they discuss polling methodology and what errors in 2020 reveal about voting during COVID-19 and changing attitudes toward pollsters.
Guest:
Chase Harrison is Associate Director of the Harvard Program on Survey Research and Preceptor in Survey Methods in the Department of Government. Chase served as Director of Research Computing Services and Principal Survey Methodologist at the Harvard Business School, where he was responsible for developing and maintaining core resources in the social sciences. As a survey researcher, Chase had designed, directed, and analyzed surveys in a variety of settings and with a variety of populations since 1991. He received his MA (Survey Research) and Ph.D. (Political Science) from the University of Connecticut.
Get new episodes of Hubwonk in your inbox!
Related Posts
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-1-495x400.png)
Shifting COVID-19 Goalposts: Moving from Zero Infections to Zero Deaths
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-52-495x400.png)
Climate’s Brighter Future: COP26 Ignores Its Own IPCC Report
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-51-495x400.png)
Building Budgets Bigger: Unpacking Who Pays the Trillion Dollar Plus Tax Bill
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-50-495x400.png)
Supply Chains Understood: Covid’s Global Demand Stress Test
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-49-495x400.png)
Competition Amongst States: How Tax Policy Drives Residents to Seek Better Value
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-48-495x400.png)
Rent Control Re-Explored: What the Past Can Teach the Future
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-47-495x400.png)
Defusing Ideological Tribalism: Methods for Communicating Across Political Language Barriers
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-46-495x400.png)
Marathon Endurance Test: Leaders Pave the Way for Boston’s Return
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-43-495x400.png)
Economic Long Covid: Mixed Health Messages for Baystate Businesses
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-42-495x400.png)
Enduring the Maelstrom: Lessons from MassPort Leadership During 9/11
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-39-495x400.png)
Rescuing Afghan Refugees: Finding Redemption amidst the Wreckage of Collapse
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-37-495x400.png)
Untangling Variants & Outbreaks: Can Vaccines & Natural Immunity Outrun Delta?
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-36-495x400.png)
Targeting Pharma: Infrastructure Bill Employs Price Controls To Offset Unprecedented Price Tag
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-35-495x400.png)
Examining Eviction Moratoriums: Testing Constitutional Limits of Executive Branch Power
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-34-495x400.png)
Pandemic Pension Payout: Essential COVID-19 Public Workers Rewarded Whether Essential or Working
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-33-495x400.png)
College Debt Explained: Education Pays When Students Choose Wisely
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-32-495x400.png)
Chasing Election Integrity: Strict Voter ID Laws’ Impact on Turnout and Fraud
![](https://pioneerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Hubwonk-Template-31-495x400.png)