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Describe the Major Methods for Measuring Public Opinion

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Describe the major methods for measuring public opinion.What are the advantages and disadvantages of each method? How valid are criticisms of opinion polling?


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Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of values, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a statistical measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of data points around their mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Mean

A measure of central tendency that is calculated by dividing the summation of all values in a data set by the number of values.

Laws Of Variance

Principles that describe how variance behaves in different statistical distributions and under various transformations.

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