On this site you can find books I\u2019ve written, my resume, and other information about my work, interests, and priorities. At the top of this page there are navigation tools, including a contact form you can use to leave a message. I would be pleased to hear from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding<\/strong> in technological matters.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media<\/em><\/a>, p. 327.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The American voting “system<\/strong> . . . uses 19th century technology to implement ideas from the 18th century” Will Brunch, Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “A new medium [e.g., the Internet]<\/strong> is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media<\/em><\/a>, p. 237.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “the double blind [women are in<\/strong>]: to be childless, and therefore less important than a mother; or to be a mother, and therefore less important than one’s children.” Sally Rooney<\/a>, reviewing Sheila Heti’s, Motherhood<\/em><\/a>, London Review of Books<\/em>, 8\/30\/2018, p. 35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Each new technology creates an environment that is itself regarded as corrupt and degrading.”<\/strong> Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media<\/em>, Critical Edition, p. 13.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “News is not what happened but a story about what happened.”<\/strong> Robert Danton, reviewing Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth<\/em>, http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2018\/06\/28\/fantasyland-bunk-greatest-show-on-earth\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Facebook uses algorithms to feed us news that we will like.”<\/strong> Robert Danton, reviewing Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth<\/em>, http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2018\/06\/28\/fantasyland-bunk-greatest-show-on-earth\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n “the industrial complex continues to generate wealth, but not prosperity”<\/strong> Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, Blockchain Revolution<\/a>, 2016, <\/em>Portfolio\/Penguin, p. 93.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Government is not a service.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “It’s ready when it’s ready<\/a>.” <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Don’t use metaphors.<\/strong> Don’t say what something is like, say what it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more of George’s Office Wall, visit my blog post GEORGE’S OFFICE WALL<\/a>. NEW REVIEW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The most recent review of my book, The Problem with Survey Research<\/em><\/a>, is by Professor Floyd Fowler and, using his own words, I\u2019ve titled his review: New York Review of Books Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My book, The Problem with Survey Research<\/em><\/a>, is reviewed in the New York Review of Books by Andrew Hacker<\/a>: \u201can unabashed. . . . spirited. . . . indictment of surveys. . . . `The flaws of polls,\u2019 he writes, `are so extensive and severe that survey research, as a method for finding out what\u2019s really going on, should be abandoned\u2019 . . . the issues he raises are important. . . . For one thing, `respondents lie\u2019 or `do not have relevant and correct information.\u2019 For another, `question wording skews results.\u2019 Those who sponsor research `disguise, or hide\u2019 its `actual or primary purpose.\u2019 Even location matters. The answers given in classrooms differ from those given in dormitories, even when both are anonymous. Beam\u2019s advice: `If you want to find out what\u2019s really going on, don\u2019t ask\u2019\u201d. On this site you can find books I\u2019ve written, my resume, and other information about my work, interests, and priorities. At the top of this page there are navigation tools, including a contact form you can use to leave a message. I would be pleased to hear from you. Thank you for your visit! George’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beamtest.johnalexcolon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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No Informed Person Would Dispute His Core Premise<\/strong>
[P]resent[s] evidence . . . that the topic, the ways questions are worded, the mode of data collection, and . . . askers themselves, affect answers in ways that clearly imply error.
[C]riticizes researchers for ignoring or downplaying known sources of error such as biased and undefined sample frames and low response rates. . . . also criticizes researchers who use monetary incentives (\u201cbribes\u201d) to improve response rates
[E]xtensively footnoted and referenced
No informed person would dispute his core premise that there is plenty of error in surveys that . . . can produce distorted results [emphasis added].
—Floyd J. Fowler, Jr., Contemporary Sociology<\/em>, Sept. 2014, vol. 43, no. 5, 660-62<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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