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Alan Reifman

Affiliation: Texas Tech University

Dr. Alan Reifman (PhD, 1989, University of Michigan) is a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University. Among his other courses, he teaches introductory and advanced statistics for the graduate students in his department.

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Alan Reifman's Latest Articles | 24

Polling Numbers: One Week Post Obama Speech

Sep 18, 2009| 

Observers of political survey research are no doubt familiar with the concept of a “bounce,” the lift in polling numbers a presidential nominee tends... Read »

Health Care Polls: Another Skeptical Audience for Obama Tonight

Sep 9, 2009| 

Many political analysts have been framing tonight’s health care reform speech by President Obama in terms of his need to appeal to different audiences. Perhaps... Read »

Health Care Polls: Support for Public Option in the States

Sep 6, 2009| 

Whereas there have been many national polls gauging support for a public option, what likely is more important to individual lawmakers is the reception to such a... Read »

Health Care Polls: Satisfaction with Publicly Provided Health Care

Sep 3, 2009| 

I recently saw two articles pop up, independently of each other, that address the question of consumers’ satisfaction with health care provided as part of... Read »

Health Care Polls: August’s “Raucus Caucuses” Seem to Have Had Little Effect on Public Opinion

Sep 3, 2009| 

Two newly released polls suggest that the vigorous (some would say “over the top”) protests at congressional lawmakers’ August town hall meetings... Read »

Health Care Polls: Age-Group Comparisons

Aug 27, 2009| 1

There’s been a lot of discussion of how seniors, who already are on Medicare, appear to be the least supportive age group of President Obama and the Democrats’... Read »

Health Care Polls: More Polling on the Public Option

Aug 24, 2009| 

Following up on our previous charting of support for a public option, which almost exclusively covered July polling, we now look at surveys from the first three... Read »

Health Care Polls: Misconceptions About Reform Bills

Aug 19, 2009| 1

A common theme in recent health care polling — presumably stemming from the heated rhetoric at town-hall meetings and elsewhere — is the degree to which... Read »

Health Care Polls: Comparing Polls Over Time

Aug 19, 2009| 

An NBC News poll (in the field August 15-17) has just appeared, focusing on health care issues (findings for select items were released during the day, but a comprehensive... Read »

Health Care Polls: Urgency to Pass a Health Care Reform Bill

Aug 17, 2009| 1

Given the seeming volatility in what can happen in the health care reform debate — such as the recent flap over “death panels” — it’s... Read »

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