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Survation Suggest The Games Have Had Little Impact

3rd August 2014

The Commonwealth Games have gone off about as well as the organisers could possibly have hoped. A record haul of medals for Team Scotland and, with just the odd exception, plenty of plaudits for how well the event has been arranged. Even the weather has been kind (at the beginning at least).  It would seem […]


Poll of Polls: 1 August

3rd August 2014

The graph below shows What Scotland Thinks’ latest Poll of Polls and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by Survation, one poll by TNS BMRB, one by YouGov, one by ICM and one by Panelbase,  The polls were conducted between 25 June and 1 August.


Panelbase Still Put No Ahead

27th July 2014

The opinion polls may of course all be wrong.  But if Scotland is to vote in favour of independence on 18 September then one would expect at least a few polls to put Yes ahead at some point before polling day.  And no poll would seem more likely to record a Yes lead than Panelbase, […]


Poll of Polls: 22 July

27th July 2014

The graph below shows What Scotland Thinks’ latest Poll of Polls and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by TNS BMRB, one poll  by YouGov, one by Survation, one by ICM and one by Panelbase,  The polls were conducted between 10 June and 22 July.


TNS BMRB Report Their Highest Yes Vote Yet

18th July 2014

Of all the companies polling regularly during the campaign, none has hitherto been more stable in its estimates of referendum vote intentions than TNS BMRB. Up to now, six of the seven polls it had conducted to date this year had put Yes on 41% (and No on 59%) once the Don’t Knows were excluded, […]


Poll of Polls: 11 July Updated

18th July 2014

The graph below shows What Scotland Thinks’ latest Poll of Polls and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls  by YouGov, two by TNS BMRB, one poll by Survation, and one by ICM,  The polls were conducted between 10 June and 11 July. It is an […]


Who is Right? YouGov or Survation?

16th July 2014

Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that the polls have been consistently disagreeing with each other in their estimates of how many people propose to vote Yes and No. Three companies, ICM, Panelbase and Survation have tended to produce higher estimates of the Yes vote (and thus lower estimates of the No […]


Poll of Polls: 11 July

13th July 2014

The graph below shows What Scotland Thinks’ latest Poll of Polls and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by ICM,  two by YouGov, one poll by Survation, and one by TNS BMRB,  The polls were conducted between 9 June and 11 July.


Survation Repeats Its Record High For Yes

11th July 2014

Sometimes there genuinely is more than one way to look at the result of an opinion poll. Apply one criterion and it can look good for one side.  Judge it by another criterion and a different picture is painted. Today’s poll of referendum vote intentions by Survation for the Daily Record is a case in […]


Poll of Polls: 8 July

11th July 2014

The graph below shows What Scotland Thinks’ latest Poll of Polls and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by YouGov,  one poll by Survation, one poll by TNS BMRB, one poll by ICM, and one by Panelbase, . The polls were conducted between 9 June […]


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