How to Predict What People Say in Twitter Polls

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I run a lot of Twitter polls and I lodge predictions of what I think the percentage breakdown will be in the polls just as I post them. And this gives me an ability to see if I actually predict it correctly. And I'm often surprised by the results. Now this is partly because I'm trying to choose polls that will surprise me, because I'm try to choose polls where I don't think I know the answer. So my mind is often changed by Twitter, but through a kind of unusual mechanism, which is called polling.

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What is the field of development? What are the differences between rapid and participatory rural appraisal? Under what conditions should qualitative surveys be preferred over quantitative and vice versa? What is participatory mapping? How has the field of development changed over the last few decades? Why do people get taller when sanitation improves?

Robert Chambers is a British academic and development practitioner. He spent his academic career at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. In 2013, he became an honorary fellow of the International Institute of Social Studies. He has been one of the leading advocates for putting the poor, destitute, and marginalized at the center of the processes of development policy since the 1980s. Learn more about him here.

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