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One of the organizing principles of my public-facing work is a simple one: make difficult things look easy. The vast majority of my audience doesn’t want to read an essay on whether probability-based sampling is worth the additional cost compared to opt-in sampling. Most of you aren’t interested in 2,000 words on question-ordering effects or how tweaking response options can lead to vastly different results. In other words, showing how the sausage is made isn’t exactly fun.