What Are the Greatest 2,020 Songs Ever? Philadelphia Is Deciding

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/arts/music/greatest- songs-WXPN.html

 

Nice story in the New York Times on WXPN’s ongoing countdown.

The dirty little secret pollsters need to own up to

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/19/why-were-polls-wrong-ignore-calls/

 

[emphasis added]

“To complete 1,510 interviews over several weeks [for our 2020 Florida election tracking polls], we had to call 136,688 voters. In hard-to-interview Florida, only 1 in 90-odd voters would speak with our interviewers. Most calls to voters went unanswered or rolled over to answering machines or voicemail, never to be interviewed despite multiple attempts.

 

“The final wave of polling, conducted Oct. 25-27 to complete 500 interviews, was the worst for cooperation. We could finish interviews with only four-tenths of one percent from our pool of potential respondents.”

 

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“After the election, I noted wide variations in completion rates across different categories of voters, but nearly all were still too low for any actual randomness to be assumed or implied.”

Notable Quote #12

[Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell has never had presidential aspirations. Perhaps those were precluded because of his (this from National Review) “owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.”

 

From a recent column in the Washington Post. Which was written by … George Will.