| Sumario: | Part of a special section on church attendance in the U.S. A commentary on Hadaway et al.'s “What the Polls Don't Show: A Closer Look at Church Attendance,” which appeared in American Sociological Review, vol. 58, 1993, pp. 741-752. Telephone polls seriously oversample church attenders and, hence, fail to accurately reflect the U.S. population. To remedy this problem, researchers should use high-quality surveys or more theoretically-grounded weighting techniques. Many of the gaps in survey data that scholars attribute to social desirability bias might actually be caused by sampling problems, methodological flaws, and errors in records.
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