Veteran pollster William ‘Invoice’ Johnson, managing director of Johnson Survey Analysis Ltd, has died.
The Gleaner understands Johnson handed away early Friday morning.
Johnson, a 1966 honours graduate of Yale College in the US, had been a fixture in Jamaican politics, conducting public opinion polls in Jamaica and the Caribbean all through the 2000s.
At Yale, he studied political behaviour.
The outcomes of his Gleaner-commissioned polls, specifically, would depart politicians both brimming with confidence or defensive and dismissive, relying on whether or not their events had been discovered to have the assist of the Jamaican individuals forward of normal or native authorities elections.
Johnson, who additionally performed polls for the Individuals’s Nationwide Social gathering, was usually accused of releasing outcomes unfairly skewed in that get together’s favour. He nevertheless at all times defended the integrity of his polling, pointing to its ranges of accuracy as soon as election outcomes had been in.
In 2010, Johnson married Coleen Valentine.
Lately, Johnson performed political polls for The Jamaica Observer and Mello FM.
In additon to political polling, Johnson additionally performed public opinion polls on points together with abortion rights and a COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
As much as the time of this report, there was no affirmation of the reason for his dying.
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