Brian Tarran
News editor, London
I am responsible for the news section of the website, and all news-related analysis and comment pieces.
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Why changes to Canada's census make no sense
Government ministers have railed against “personal and intrusive questions” in the long-form census, hence their call for it to be made voluntary. But, bizarrely, the questions they cited in the press were added on their watch.
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The poll truth and nothing but the truth
Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs (pictured) said recently: “We’re too busy to sit around looking at polls.” Yet they’ve spend $4.4m on them in 18 months. Why can’t politicians be honest about their love for opinion research?
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The World Cup in words, stats and pictures
All the drama and passion of the world’s most-watched sporting event – distilled into a jpeg.
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The social media lies we tell
Tech blogger Robert Scoble has an interesting post today about the lies people tell on social networks. To be more precise, these are ‘lies by omission’ – that is, important things about ourselves that we choose not to share in order to maintain a certain identity online.
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Research cuts hit home for Canadian government
It’s to the Canadian market research industry’s eternal credit that they’ve managed to resist the urge to scream “told you so” amid criticism of massive government cuts in spending on public opinion research which have left policy-makers and civil servants with little evidence to work with.
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Comment on: SampleWorx intros online marketplace in Australia
Hi Bo, Given the time difference, we have not been able to communicate with SampleWorx yet on this issue. Your point may well be correct, but I got the impression that they were involved in handling data as they seem to be using their own digital fingerprinting technology to de-dupe sample before handing it to the client. We have emailed the company and hope to have clarification on the site by tomorrow.
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Comment on: SampleWorx intros online marketplace in Australia
Thanks for clearing that up, Henry.
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Comment on: Will the ends justify the means in offshoring transparency?
Thank you for your comments 'Anon'. I can assure you – though I doubt it'll convince you otherwise – that what we write about is in no way influenced by what our advertisers do or don't do. And as I sought to make clear throughout the article, what the FTO is seeking to do in encouraging transparency in offshoring should be supported. The concerns raised are about whether they have the taken the right approach in trying to achieve this.
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Comment on: Viva the iClipboard!
Twitter has been quick to correct the assumption that 'engaging' web surveys would not be possible on the Flash-less iPad. @richshaw informs us that almost everything you can do in Flash you can do in HTML & Javascript, while @tcollins says there are workarounds for the Flash issue. See here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/adobe-flash-ipad/
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Comment on: Why going out is the new staying in
"Surely the ‘80s classic Teenwolf is due another TV outing?" I'm afraid to say you missed it. Bravo was showing it over Christmas.
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