{"id":40802287583,"date":"2025-02-26T08:29:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802287583"},"modified":"2025-02-26T20:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T01:19:51","slug":"polling-director-murray-hosts-the-science-and-art-of-polling-march-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/polling-director-murray-hosts-the-science-and-art-of-polling-march-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Polling Director Murray Hosts ‘The Science (and Art) of Polling’ March 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, will present \u201cScience On Saturday: The Science (and Art) of Polling<\/a>\u201d at Princeton University on March 15, 9:30-11 a.m. The event will be held in Maeder Hall and is open to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray\u2019s event will explore the question: is polling really a science? This presentation will discuss the \u201csocial science methods that underpin opinion research, its varied applications from business to public policy and how to be a better consumer of what is perhaps its most problematic manifestation \u2013 the election poll.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Murray was named the Monmouth University Polling Institute\u2019s founding director in 2005. He is frequently called upon by the media to provide commentary on polling and the political world, including appearances on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, PBS, and National Public Radio. During federal election years, Murray also serves as a national exit poll analyst for major networks. In the institute\u2019s home state, Murray has appeared on numerous Power Lists of the most influential people in New Jersey politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register for the event.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, will present \u201cScience On Saturday: The Science (and Art) of Polling\u201d at Princeton University on March 15, 9:30-11 a.m. The event will be held in Maeder Hall and is open to the general public. Murray\u2019s event will explore the question: is polling really a science? This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802267207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,444,423,86],"tags":[1505,5117],"person":[395],"audience":[14,386,11,8,50,29],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802287583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","category-polling-institute","tag-polling-institute","tag-princeton-university","person-pdmurray","audience-alumni","audience-community","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-graduate-student","audience-media"],"squareimage":{"id":40802287585,"rendered":"\"Polling","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Patrick-Murray-Headshot_20220727_AD_10-square.jpg","width":4480,"height":4480}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802287583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802287588,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802287583\/revisions\/40802287588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802267207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802287583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802287583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802287583"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802287583"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802287583"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802287583"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802287583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}