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Popular Participation: Introduction to Exercise 4 - Polling and public opinion
What You Will Learn

The following exercise deals with:
  • Public opinion
  • Ways of sampling public opinion:
    • Telephone polls
    • Exit polls
    • Focus groups
  • Problems with opinion polling
Key Terms


exit polls
focus groups
political opinion
public opinion
public policy
sampling
scientific polling
survey research
telephone polls
tracking poll
Click on a term for the definition and Spanish translation.
What You Will Do

Complete the passages by dragging terms from the given list and dropping them in the right spaces. Correct answers will remain in the text, and incorrect choices will go back to the list of terms.
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