UP warns public: Be wary of 'kalye surveys'

A warning by the University of the Philippines School of Statistics (UP STAT) against the proliferation of surveys with unclear methodologies has recirculated online amid the declaration of several personalities of their potential candidacies in next year’s elections.

- JANVIC MATEO

UP STAT called out “the pervasive abuse of survey methodologies by some entities doing their own brand of research and promoting them on social media.”

The warning was originally published in February 2022.

“We have been observing these practices, including surveys not based on random sampling, such as videos of ‘kalye surveys’ being done by some vloggers and suspicious online surveys, especially on Twitter and Facebook. We are dismayed by their cavalier disregard for the principles of data gathering,” the statement read.