Talk:Quinnipiac University Polling Institute

Name of article
The name of the organization that conducts the Quinnipiac University Poll is the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. The institute as a whole is the topic of this article, so I think that this page name should be moved to "Quinnipiac University Polling Institute." If there are no objections, I will make that move in the next few days. Thanks. Safehaven86 (talk) 05:07, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

2016 performance - SYNTH and undue weight
I object to the insertion (and undiscussed re-insertion) of this content here, for two key reasons:


 * 1) It's clearly WP:SYNTH/WP:OR. The source material dates from BEFORE the election, yet the text inserts content about the actual election results in particular states (which is discussed nowhere in the actual source). This explicitly and implicitly tries to make this assessment of Quinnipiac's accuracy or inaccuracy.
 * 2) The synth concerns alone require removal, but this also must be taken out on undue weight grounds. Quinnipiac's overall performance/accuracy is proper to include in aggregate form (for example, 538's empirical pollster ratings), but it's undue weight to cherry-pick individual polls.  Moreover, the Quinnipiac polls cited were actually in the margin of error. There is nothing notable about a actual results having a variance from a pollster's survey within the margin of error. That happens all the time and is extremely common in virtually all public opinion research.


 * Neutralitytalk 21:22, 17 December 2019 (UTC)


 * WP:SYNTH says "Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion". The idea that there is some sort of violation of WP:SYNTH makes no sense because 1) multiple sources have not been cited 2) no conclusion has been reached. Only data has been provided, and it is up to the reader to draw whatever conclusion they wish from the data. And getting all 4 results wrong by such a margin is not an event that falls "within the margin of error" as these are supposed to be independent events (Florida survey shouldn't impact Pennsylvania survey etc.). Best, JS (talk) 19:48, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


 * None of that actually responds to the points I made above. Again, the cite you added says nothing about what states Trump actually won. Neutralitytalk 20:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Name of article (again)
I see from the talk page post above that the name of the article was changed from "Quinnipiac University Poll" to "Quinnipiac University Polling Institute." i think this needs to be reconsidered. The poll itself is the WP:COMMONNAME. Coretheapple (talk) 13:26, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 2 June 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 08:06, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

Quinnipiac University Polling Institute → Quinnipiac University Poll – This article is about the poll, not the organization that runs it. WP:COMMONNAME applies. "Quinnipiac University Poll" used to be its name, and it was changed without discussion ten years ago. (see 2012 post at the top of this page) Coretheapple (talk) 15:47, 2 June 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:07, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose as this article is about the institute that runs it. It gives staffing details, and compares the Institute to others run by other universities. Sheehanpg93 (talk) 16:48, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose The article is about the institute—blindlynx 14:21, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

The first paragraph after the lede is illegible
It currently reads "Academic-affiliated polls like Quinnipiac have grown in significance as media organization polls have It has been described as media budgets have declined, and in 2018 Politico called the Quinnipiac poll "the most significant player among a number of schools that have established a national polling footprint."[4]"

Clearly something has gone wrong in editing this, but I can't for the life of me reconstruct what it should have said. 82.176.221.176 (talk) 16:23, 20 January 2023 (UTC)